Post Colonial Discourse
One might be inclined to suggest that Aboriginal writing is the ‘new genre,’ offering its own syntax, appealing to those who would like to situate the ‘Aboriginal book’ as the representative of Aboriginality: the written and purely ‘factual’ notion that ‘this is what it means to be home-grown – the Indigenous Other.’ However to bracket-off Aboriginal writing as a socially progressive fact is, perhaps, illusory; with Aboriginal writers previously unheard of (and of course representing what was once unmentionable) will we see signs of a cultural, pluralistic buoyancy? The once silenced voices that can now be circulated and ‘understood’ seems to suggest that white Australia has relaxed its position, welcoming among its literary ranks those with something important to say. To suggest, however, that Aboriginality in print form can only be good is an innocent mistake. For all that is seen as a contemporary license to express one’s cultural and personal ‘take’ on what being Aboriginal means by way of the text, is merely confirmation of mainstream Australia’s white-refusal to meet Aboriginality on its own terms – that is, ‘understanding’ or cultural pluralism cannot be published. And certainly not when the Aboriginal text is an artifice t
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Approximate Word count = 3281
Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page double spaced)
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