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标题：Dark Places: True Crime Writing in Australia
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作者：Rosalind Smith
期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2008
卷号：8
页码：17-30
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：In studies of crime fiction, it is orthodox to note that crime has a particular significance in historical and contemporary constructions of Australian nationalism (Knight, Case 243; Bird 5). The settlement of Australia as a penal colony, the violent and unresolved history of relations between settler and Indigenous cultures, and a tradition of national mythmaking surrounding criminal figures, also indicate the centrality of true crime and its narration to formations of Australian national identity. In her novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime, Chloe Hooper suggests that the entire narrative of colonisation in Australia is a suppressed ‘Ur-true-crime-story’ (97): Between each line in these books there must be another story, which has to be imagined, written in blood. Always true, this blood story will haunt you and keep you awake, and the grown-ups should never know of it. (Hooper 237)