- Title
- Dark places: true crime writing in Australia
- Creator
- Smith, Rosalind
- Relation
- Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature: JASAL Vol. 8, p. 17-30
- Relation
- http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/issue/view/53/showToc
- Publisher
- Association for the Study of Australian Literature
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This article outlines a brief textual and critical history of true crime writing in Australia, before addressing some of the methodological problems attached to a genre that relies simultaneously upon a rhetoric of truth claims and the activation of myth, superstition, gossip and story as its narrative strategies. It concludes by examining John Bryson’s Evil Angels, a seminal text in the history of Australian true crime, as an exemplar of the genre’s dual investment in history and storytelling, information and imagination.
- Subject
- crime writing; Australia; truth; history
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/39857
- Identifier
- uon:4507
- Identifier
- ISSN:1447-8986
- Language
- eng
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