Chapter One Introduction ?、? Identity and Modernity ?、? Identity in Australia Ⅲ. Clarifications on the Concept of "Identity" and Methodology in the Study Chapter Two The Making and Unmaking of Thomas Keneally ?、? A Review of Criticism on Keneally ?、? Major Disputes and Achievements in Criticism on Keneally Ⅲ. Australian Identity Anxiety in "the Rise and Fall" of Keneally ?、? Deficiencies in Criticism on Keneally Chapter Three The Sense of Place in Australia Ⅰ. Transported and Transmuted ?、? Reversed Nature, Dislocation, and Self-Commissioning ?、? "The Outback", "River Towns" and a New Nation ?、? Keneally the Mapper: Keneally's Settings and Australian National Identity Chapter Four "The Past Is A Foreign Country" Ⅰ. The Criminal Past in Present: Keneally's Portrayal of Colonial Society ?、? The Sense of Guilt. Inherited and Imagined Ⅲ. Keneally's View of History and Historical Writing Chapter Five "Imagined Enemies": Aborigines and White Identity ?、? Keneally's Aboriginal Characters ?、? Identity and Stigmatization Transferred ?、? The Stranger in Cultural Clashes: A Postcolonial Dilemma ?、? Contextualizing Aborigine-White Relations:The Need for Enemies at a Time of Identity Anxiety Chapter Six Thomas Keneallys Contribution to the Literary Representation of Australian Identity Bibliography A Thomas Keneally Chronology Index