Abstract
In her ‘‘Preface’’ to Struggle of Memory, Joan Dugdale notes with some irony that she is completing her novel just as Australia is celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first AIF’s landing at Gallipoli, ‘‘an event which, according to the overwhelmingly masculine anthology of this nation, symbolises Australia’s coming of age’’; by contrast, the kind of war story she tells, which shifts the focus from the battlefront to the home front, has also been instrumental in shaping Australian society, but it has been ‘‘almost completely repressed’’ (p. xi). Lest readers have forgotten the shocking details of her story, Dugdale provides a brief synopsis:
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