Welcome to Historical Frictions, a historical fiction podcast.
This week, we are discussing the novel Into the World by Stephanie Parkyn, read by Hilary. Set in 1791, it follows the Marie-Louise Girardin and her time abroad the ship Resercher disguised as a man after fleeing revolutionary France after giving birth to an illegitimate son.
We recognise that some of the themes of this book are timely given the Black Lives Matter and BIPOC movements and protests that are occurring globally as we recorded this episode. As such, we ask that listeners please educate yourself about the realities of Australian colonial history and the violence and oppression it inflicted, and still is, upon Aboriginal Australians. Please see our post, put together by Tess, of some historical fiction resources available to you for about the subject.
Hilary apologises for her mispronunciation of the French names in this podcast. For a full list of crew members see the Google Books version of the book
For additional reading:
The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772-1839, Colin L. Dyer
Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage: Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Novel, by A. Frances Johnson
The Axe Had Never Sounded: Place, People and Heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania, by John Mulvaney
The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront by Lorena Allam and Nick Evershed published by The Guardian including an interactive map of massacres of Indigenous peoples in Australia.
Conflict, Adaptation, Transformation: Richard Broome and the Practice of Aboriginal History, edited by Ben Silverstein
Also:
An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Pérouse, by (naturalist crew member) Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière
Vandemonian War: The Secret History of Britain’s Tasmanian Invasion, by Nick Brodie
The Black War: Fear, Sex, and Resistance, by Nicholas Clements
The Nightingale (2018), dir. by Jennifer Kent
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Thank you for listening and happy reading!
