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Voice, Authority and the Law in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang

Abstract In True History of the Kelly Gang, Australian novelist Peter Carey presents a postmodern historical novel looking back at the case of the famous bushranger Ned Kelly and presenting an alternative account of his protagonist’s career and ignominious end, challenging the official version of events as well as the authority of the law. Carey thus gives a voice to a silenced subaltern subject and rewrites Australian colonial history in a way that raises questions not only with regard to the issue of what really happened but also with reference to the accessibility of historical truth.