The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction

Winner of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature‘s Alvie Egan Award 2019! Winner of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) Dissertation Award 2018 This is the first in-depth, broad-based study of the impact of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992 on Australian fiction. More than any other event in Australia’s legal, political and cultural history, the Mabo judgement – which recognised indigenous Australians’ customary «native title» to la