Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II Writing Back to the Empire:Thematic Concerns
I.Interpolation of Historical Narrative:Hlywhacker
II.Contestation of Colonial Culture:Oscar and Lucinda
III.Rewriting Literary Canon:Jack Maggs
IV.Revision of National Legend: TrueHistory of the Kelly Gang
V.Exploration of neocolonialism: TheUnusual Life of Tristan Smith
Chapter IIl Textuality and Historicity:Narrative Concerns
I.Post-modernist Metafiction: Illywhacker &Oscar and Lucinda
II.Allegory in Post-colonial Context:Oscar and Lucinda & The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
III.Magic Realism and Conventional Story Telling in Peter Carey' s Fiction
Chapter IV Reconstruction of Cultural Identity:Counter -Discourse
I. Subversion of the Empire:Intertextuality
II. Reconstruction of Cultural Identity:Counter-discourse
Chapter V Conclusion: Imprisonment and Transformation
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