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Joan Makes History- Question Two Anna Taylor
Kate Grenville’s novel Joan makes History provides a reader with a customised account of Australian history from the times of James Cookes expedition on ‘The Endeavour’ until the year of Australia’s Federation in 1901. A reader is exposed to Joan in two different mediums- one continuous Joan; whose life story is told in a montage style between the particular Joan’s, where the reader is educated of the social context of different eras. The reader is intentionally immersed in Joan’s innermost thoughts, and the tale is told in first person point of view to covertly privilege the voice of disempowered groups such as Aboriginals, the poor, women and convicts.
Kate Grenville represents Aboriginal women in Joan makes History in Scene Three, and attacks a popular stereotype held by modern society, which enables their voice to be privileged. In this scene Joan is an Aboriginal woman who is labeled as abnormally ambitious for someone in her tribe, her insistence of making history occurs to them as a “silly waste of time.” Grenville offers insight into the thoughts, dreams and hopes of this Joan to show the reader that her ambitious nature is a positive attribute of her personality. Joan wishes to create her own destiny, and curve the conventional path which Aboriginal women take and this condemns the popular stereotype in literature that Aboriginal people are lazy.
Approximate Word count = 1037
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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