Abstract
Four works of contemporary Australian travel literature, such as Reading the Country by Krim Benterrak, Stephen Muecke, and Paddy Roe (1984/1996), Barry Hill's The Rock (1994), Kim Mahood's Craft for a Dry Lake (2000) and Nicholas Jose's Black Sheep (2002) are discussed and how these narratives enact performances of a white Australian postcolonial sensibility towards Aboriginality is examined. The ways in which the discourse of reconciliation manifests in recent travel literature and how in Whitlock's terms the script of the performance of reconciliation changed subtly during the 1990's are addressed.
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