Andrew Lemon
Author of Box Hill
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Screenshot: DFAT Pacific Step-up page viewed 9 July 2022
I'm also willing to hazard a guess that most of us know very little about the colonial history of these nations. Which is why Andrew Lemon's The Pebbled Beach at Pentecost is so interesting. It's set amid 19th century colonialism in the Pacific, tracing the events that led up to the death of a young Englishman on Pentecost Island in 1887.
Award-winning historian Andrew Lemon, delivering the recent Weston Bate Oration at the RHSV (Royal Historical Society of Victoria), explored the writing of Australian history as literature. Christina Browning from RHSV Marketing kindly sent me the text of his wide-ranging speech which considered the reasons why journalists and storytellers outsell academic historians when writing on historical subjects and also the impact of Australian novels, plays and poetry on Australians’ understanding of their history.
(He doesn't mention Indigenous historical novelists, so I'll just mention those that come to mind: Anita Heiss, Sienna Brown, Julie Janson, Leah Purcell, and Marie Munkara, and I'll also suggest that all the First Nations fiction that I've read involves a reckoning with Australia's Black History.)
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2022/07/09/the-pebbled-beach-at-pentecost-by-andrew-lem...… (more)