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David Malouf’s *Remembering Babylon* re-imagines Australian colonial history by delving beyond the conventional binary of coloniser and colonised, and instead presents a nuanced portrayal of cultural interaction, identity crises, and psychological transformation in a frontier society. The novel disrupts dominant Eurocentric narratives by focusing on the liminal figure of Gemmy Fairley—a British castaway who assimilates with the Aboriginal community—and uses his story as a symbolic and literal bridge between cultures. Malouf's retelling is not a revision of historical facts, but a re-envisioning of how history is experienced, remembered, and inscribed in the landscape and psyche of a nation. Through poetic language, shifting narrative perspectives, and a focus on internal consciousness, Malouf challenges the mythologies of settlement, notions of racial superiority, and the fixedness of cultural identity. At the heart of Malouf’s historical re-imagination is the character of Gemmy, whose ambiguous status as a white man living among Indigenous Australians forces the settler community to confront their own fears, uncertainties, and deep-seated prejudices. His presence disrupts the settlers' fragile sense of security and order. Unlike conventional colonial literature which often depicts the "other" as primitive and inferior, *Remembering Babylon* reverses the gaze. Gemmy, though once British, is seen by the settlers as corrupted by Aboriginal influence. This inversion allows Malouf to critique colonial binaries such as civilised/savage, Christian/pagan, and white/black, portraying them as artificial and constructed rather than natural and absolute. ______ _________ _________ _______ _________ ____ _____ ______ ___ ____ ___.
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