Set Adrift: Identity and the Postcolonial Present in Gould's Book of Fish

Abstract

This article presents a critical examination of the metafictional devices used by Richard Flanagan in developing a pointed fictional critique of postcolonial Tasmania in his novel Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish. Highlights Flanagan's insistence on developing and maintaining the postcolonial present as a place of literary intervention.