... be how Keneally and Schepsi explores the social inequalities and injustices of the Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith in the novel and film, and the immense cultural gap of pre-federation Australia between white and aboriginal society. Keneally sets the novel in 1899, the highpoint of federation. Jimmie Blacksmith is a half-caste aboriginal fighting for acceptance in white society, a native of "Brentwood ... was nothing the constable could baptise himself. The officer only sees Jimmie as an inhumane and respsonds to his wash "why've yer gotter be the cleanest fuckin" darkie in Australia? It's c...

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