Rereading David Malouf’s *Fly Away Peter

The authorâ s account of Fly Away Peter is intended â to raise the question of the relation between Maloufâ s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War and the formation of Australian identity and, on the other hand, Aboriginal narratives of dispossession and self-affirmation.â This leads to a consideration of the novelâ s treatment of the Anzac myth and its role as a settler narrative; and to a discussion of the â Ngurrara Canvasâ , painted by â Great Sandy Desert traditional owners prior to the National Native Title tribunal hearings in 1997â . â Rather than pitting one narrative of loss and recovery against another, I hope to suggest some of the heterogenous, perhaps incommensurate elements in relation to which any twenty-first-century narrative of Australian identity must locate itselfâ (38-39)

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