AWW23: Unbelonging - Fiona McFarlane

Chair: Jo Case


A six-year-old child disappears in a dust storm in the Flinders
Ranges. It’s a familiar literary trope about lost white children
and reflects the anxiety in 19th century colonial Australia about
the dangers of the wilderness. The same anxiety, unsurprisingly,
did not accompany the Stolen Generations, forever lost to their
families and cultures. In her latest novel of competing parallel
narratives, The Sun Walks Down, Fiona McFarlane explores who
belongs to the land and who are the interlopers.


Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 5:00pm on the West
Stage