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XXXXX YYYYY ZZZZZZ 22 November 2016 Contribution of Post-Colonial Literature The Europeans traveled to many distant lands, with Australia being the farthest away. As they always did, these colonists took the land away from the natives and subjugated the land. It is process repeated repeatedly throughout the world. When the natives resisted, they were tortured and killed as a warning to other natives. It is the conquering way for all Europeans. The natives in all lands were settled by Europeans, the facts overwrote the history annals because only the Europeans knew how to read and write. The colonization cost more in lives of the natives than money. The natives depended on handing down history from father to son by word of mouth. This provides an account of Australian’s Aborigine with the Europeans being the good people. These next paragraphs will compare and contrast the historical significance of “The Secret River” from three scholars, Sue Kossew, Sarah Pinto, and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, respectively. All three authors discuss the Secret River as the River of Blood. It is the blood of the natives, which run in that river. Those who would write about the history of Australia did so from a white European view of the world (Kossew, 15). They were the only ones who knew how to read and write back then. The Secret River was a semi-historical novel that depicts the natives as slaves, working for the Europeans. They simply did not get a choice in the matter (Pinto, 192). The real history of the natives passed on from father to son, unlike the Europeans. This means the written view is European and not native. So who is telling the truth, no one, everyone? The truth
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