This article explores the literary strategies that operate in Richard Flanagan, Tim Winton, David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkias’s stories and that reconfigure Australian fiction as a central discursive space. It seeks to analyse the ambivalent discourses that operate when retelling Australia’s settler past and how the act of writing may construct a space for an alter discourse, a space that exceeds the “post” of postcolonialism. The article thus shows that 20th and 21st Australian literature has designed a performative discourse that re-constructs issues of home, belonging and identity through multiple realities and counter spaces of discourse
