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)
