本书是一本关于澳大利亚当代作家彼得·凯里新历史小说文化记忆书写的学术专著。凯里的新历史小说是从当下处境出发对澳大利亚的文化记忆进行的想象性重构，是对澳大利亚文化身份的诗学探寻。本书沿着从外部关照到内部辨析的进路，透视了作品发生的思想文化语境和政治社会现状，辨析了文本各自因应变化所呈现出的独特文化记忆景观，并结合副文本的外应佐证，力图从澳大利亚的殖民记忆、原初记忆和新殖民记忆三个维度，全面、深入地呈现凯里新历史小说独特的审美旨趣和丰富的思想文化内涵。

Introduction
The Author and His Works
Literature Revicw
Research Background
Theoretical Framework
Significance and Innovations
Layout of the Monograph
Chapter One Australia’s Colonial Memories to Trace Origin.Re-appraise and Invent Traditions
1.1 European Civilization Remembered as a Double-edged Sword Oscar and Lucinda
1.1.1 Preliminaries ofthe Fiction
1.1.2 Christian Civilization as a Sugar-coated Bullet
1.1.3 Gambling as a Home-grown Religion and Victorian Transmission
1.1.4 Misogyny as Punishment for Bush Intruders and Victorian Transgressors
1.2 Convicts Recollected as Scapegoats for the Empire：Jack Maggs
1.2.1 Preliminaries ofthe Fiction
1.2.2 Scapegoats Expulsed for Good
1.2.3 Convicts’Homesickness
1.2.4 Reorientation to Embrace the Adopted Land
1.3 Outlaw Recalled as a National Hero：True History of ff：e Kelly Gang
1.3.1 Preliminaries ofthe Fiction
1.3.2 Colonial Australia as a Dystopia
1.3.3 Death ofthe Outlaw as a State Murder
1.3.4 Monument to the Antiauthoritarian Hero
Chapter Two Australia’s Original Memories to Conerete Identitv Surpass and Heal
2.1 Underpaintings of Australian Memory：Illywhacker
2.1.1 Preliminaries ofthe Fiction
2.1.2 Lies as Part of Existence
2.1.3 Utopian Nationalist Dream
2.1.4 Multi-cultural Genes
2.1.5 Nation in Gaol
2.2 Aborigines Remembered as Victims of European Australians
Racism：A Long Way from Home
2.2.1 Preliminaries of the Fiction
2.2.2 Victims of the White’s Racism
2.2.3 Deferred Reconciliation between the Whites and the
Aborigines
2.2.4 Aborigines’Salvation by Carving Their Cultural Memorv
Chapter Three Australia’s Neo-eolonial Memories to Blame and Illumine the Present
3.1 Americanization Recollected as a Crippling Force：The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
3.1.1 Preliminaries of the Fiction
3.1.2 Mania for the New Empire
3.1.3 Hybridized Cripple ofImperialism
3.1.4 Culture as Armour
3.2 Ally Recalled as the Imperialist：Amnesia
3.2.1 Preliminaries of the Fiction
3.2.2 Forgetting as a National Ill
3.2.3 Cost of 0blivion——Carnival of Humiliations
3.2.4 Birth of the Overman
Conclusion
Reference List