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Concentric:Literary and Cultural Studies A&HCIScopusTHCI

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篇名 Breaking through the Rabbit-Proof Fence: Colonial Displacement and Aboriginal Resistance in Doris Pilkington Garimara's Storytelling
卷期 45:1
作者 Yu-wen Fu
頁次 165-186
關鍵字 rabbit-proof fencedisplacementAboriginal storytellingcolonial historypostcolonial rereadingAustralian film and literaturethe Stolen GenerationsA&HCIScopusTHCI
出刊日期 201903
DOI 10.6240/concentric.lit.201903_45(1).0008

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This essay analyzes how contemporary Australian Aboriginal storytelling, exemplified by Doris Pilkington Garimara5s book Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) and its film adaptation by director Phillip Noyce, transcribes the various experiences of displacement and resistance of Aboriginal peoples and provides a basis for a collective listening/rereading of the nation’s complex colonial history. The various guises of displacement and resistance examined in this essay include: the involuntary migration of Aboriginal peoples, especially the Nyungar and the Mardudjara, along the rabbit-proof fence towards government-assigned settlements such as Jigalong (equivalent to “reservations” in the US); the forced relocation of mixed-race children (the Stolen Generations) to missionary camps to be made culturally white; and the children’s heroic journey of escape and homecoming─again navigated through the rabbit-proof fence. The essay aims to demonstrate that Aboriginal storytelling not only discloses a history of disruption imposed by European settlement, but, perhaps more importantly, registers Aboriginal peoples’ strength to resist, adopt, and reconnect.

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