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Title	:	The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Author	:	Thomas Keneally
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 178 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2001 by A&R Classics (first published 1972)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Paperback | Pages: 178 pages

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The extraordinary Booker Prize shortlisted story of a black man's revenge against an unjust and intolerant society. Thomas Keneally was born in Sydney Australia in 1935. He studied to be a Catholic priest but abandoned his vocation to take up teaching and writing. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction including "Schindlers Ark" which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was made into a successful film.

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Original Title:	The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
ISBN:	0207197164 (ISBN13: 9780207197161)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Australia
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1972), W.H. Heinemann Award (1973)

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Based on the true story of an ill-used aboriginal man in 1900 Australia. Reads like a Western tale of revenge with added reflections on race, colonialism, aboriginal cultural beliefs, and historical events of the time such as the Boer War and Australian federation. The author apparently said later that if he were writing it again he would not presume to write in the voice of an indigenous Australian - but I think this gives the novel much of its power, and it never seems tokenistic or

And here the history of mean death and lust for booze and acquiescence to the white phallus, gun, and sequestration and all the malaise of black squalor, here it was, legible in the fracture lines of soft stones.

Unreadable This may have some historical value but language and style of the text just puts me off. I found it boring.

A typical piece of historical reclamation work from Kenally's penetrating, & occasionally poisonous, pen! This deals with his home country - Australia not Ireland! - & the prejudices of Edwardian empire- builders & opportunistic chancers, & the explosion of Aboriginal despair at the immigrant 'whites' casual indifference to their inevitable extinction under the relentless over-whelming power of progress & modern, prosaic civilisation. Keneally's grasp of the contemporary

Certainly gives a person a lot to think about. The Australian history between the whites and the aboriginals is very painfully tragic and the story of Jimmie Blacksmith lays that tragedy out before us. All sides in this book were both victims and perpetrators. I was struck with sorrow for all of them.According to the back cover, this book is based on a true incident. Jimmie Blacksmith is a half breed, born of a black mother and white father, a very common occurrence I am sure, as it also was in



Based purely on how he seems to come across in interviews, I'd avoided reading any Thomas Kenneally. I had always suspected that his books would be a little too smug, too self-satisfied for me to handle.Thankfully, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith proved me wrong.The novel - now a curriculum staple - is a fictionalised tale of crime and punishment, but mostly is about the interaction between Caucasian and Aborigine circa Australian Federation. The titular character is a half-caste, so not at home