Major Ideas: Identity, Belonging, and Displacement (HSC SSCE English Standard): Flashcards
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Country (Aboriginal concept)
Country (Aboriginal concept)
Sacred ancestral land central to Indigenous identity & belonging
Hybrid disconnection
Hybrid disconnection
Being caught between two worlds without fully belonging to either
Stolen Generations
Stolen Generations
Aboriginal children forcibly removed to destroy cultural transmission
Koori (definition)
Koori (definition)
Aboriginal people from SE Australia (NSW & Victoria)
Ngurra (Wiradjuri word)
Ngurra (Wiradjuri word)
Home or camp
Cultural amnesia
Cultural amnesia
Loss of traditional knowledge across generations
Lived dispossession
Lived dispossession
Ongoing present-day loss of connection to land and culture
Vignette form in novel
Vignette form in novel
Short, episodic chapters reflecting May's fragmented identity
Code-switching in novel
Code-switching in novel
Moving between Aboriginal English, standard English & Wiradjuri
May's key epiphany
May's key epiphany
This land is belonging, all of it for all of us