Sally Morgan’s My Place: Exposing the (Ab)original ‘Text’ Behind Whitefellas’ History
In presenting an autobiographical account of her own and her family’s life experience, Sally Morgan exposes the Aborigines’ post-contact history – hitherto obliterated, ‘overwritten’, as all colonised peoples’ histories are, by the official, historical accounts of the colonial culture. The quest for...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | In presenting an autobiographical account of her own and her family’s life experience, Sally Morgan exposes the Aborigines’ post-contact history – hitherto obliterated, ‘overwritten’, as all colonised peoples’ histories are, by the official, historical accounts of the colonial culture. The quest for her Aboriginal identity further enables Morgan both to un- and re-cover a cultural heritage that had been deliberately obscured by the white ‘script’ superimposed upon it. |
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