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© 2021 V&R unipress, Brill Deutschland GmbH ISBN Print: 9783847113232 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737013239 Benwell14, who have investigated how book clubs can facilitate discourses of intercultural engagement and rapprochement. Our study contributes to these efforts. ThevernacularcriticismobservedinrelationtoSarahThornhillworks intwo key ways: first, readers seem to hold in tension a critique of the accounts of history and yet accept its provisional nature, or fictitious elements. Second, in terms of active reflection, readers engage through group discussion with his- torical fictionona continuum frompersonal reminiscence to adeeper level of appreciation for the implicationsof history and story.This response to anovel includesconsiderationsof the implicationsof historyonself, on theAustralian “story”or legacy, andon thepresent social context of IndigenousAustralians. For the readers in our study, Sarah Thornhill thus became a highly accessible means to stimulate critical thinking about the eventsof thepast and their rele- vance for thepresent. Bibliography Bristol,Michael: “Vernacular Criticism and the Scenes ShakespeareNeverWrote”, in: ShakespeareSurvey2000/53, pp. 89–102. ChabotDavis, Kimberly:Beyond theWhite Negro: Empathy andAnti-Racist Reading. Urbana:Universityof IllinoisPress, 2014. Clarke, Robert/Nolan,Marguerite: “BookClubs andReconciliation: APilot Study on BookClubsReadingtheFictionsof Reconciliation”, in:AustralianHumanitiesReview 2014/56, pp. 121–40. Fassin,Didier/Rechtman,Richard:TheEmpireofTrauma:AnInquiryintotheCondition of Victimhood. Trans. Gomme, Rache. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Fuller,Danielle/RehbergSedo,Denel:ReadingBeyondtheBook:TheSocialPracticesof ContemporaryLiteraryCulture.NewYork:Routledge, 2013. Gandhi, Leela: Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction.NewYork: ColombiaUni- versityPress, 1998. Grenville,Kate:SarahThornhill.Text, 2011. Griswold,Wendy:Regionalism and the Reading Class.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Hartley, Jenny/Turvey, Sarah:ReadingGroups.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress, 2004. Long, Elizabeth:BookClubs:Womenand theUses of Reading inEverydayLife.Chicago: UniversityofChicagoPress, 2003. Nolan,Maggie:“ReadingKimScott’sThatDeadmanDance:BookClubsandPostcolonial LiteraryTheory”, in: Journal of theAssociation for the Study of AustralianLiterature 14 Procter/Benwell2014. MaggieNolan/RobertClarke /RebekahBrown240 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0