ABSTRACT Set in mid-1820s Van Diemen’s Land, The Nightingale depicts a dark and disturbing Tasmanian past populated with redcoats, convicts, Aboriginal people, and a few free settlers. Controversial scenes include the repeated rape of a young female convict, the murders of her husband and infant, and the rape and murder of an Aboriginal woman. Uncanny parallels can be drawn between the on-screen experiences of the white female lead, and the violence visited on the bodies of Tasmanian colonial woman Elizabeth Tibbs, her husband, and infant in 1826. After situating the film within its historical context, this paper provides a mimetic reading through elaborating these parallels. It interrogates key points of divergence between these fictional and historical accounts of women’s lives to explore what they reveal about gender, class, race, violence, and justice in colonial Van Diemen’s Land and its depiction in twenty-first century Australia.

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不可思议的相似之处：詹妮弗·肯特（Jennifer Kent）的《夜莺》，暴力和《魔幻世界》

摘要夜莺坐落在1820年代范迪门（Van Diemen）的土地上，描绘了塔斯马尼亚人黑暗而令人不安的过去，那里散布着红色外套，囚犯，原住民和一些自由定居者。有争议的场面包括一年轻女犯人被强奸，谋杀她的丈夫和婴儿，以及强奸和谋杀一名土著妇女。白人女主角的银幕经历与1826年塔斯马尼亚殖民妇女伊丽莎白·蒂布斯（Elizabeth Tibbs）的丈夫和婴儿的尸体所遭受的暴力之间有着不可思议的相似之处。在将影片定位于其历史背景下之后，本文通过阐述这些相似之处提供了模拟阅读。它审视了这些关于女性生活的虚构和历史描述之间的区别的关键点，以探讨她们揭示的关于性别，阶级，种族，暴力，