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Murri vernacular in Rainbow's End

Aboriginal English asserting cultural sovereignty & resistance

Stichomythia

Rapid-fire dialogue exchanges heightening dramatic tension

Harrison's juxtaposition technique

Contrasts dream sequences with brutal reality

Flood motif meaning

Uncontrollable dispossession & systemic violence

Hessian fence symbolism

Portable segregation; physical barrier of exclusion

Encyclopaedias symbolize

False promise of assimilationist uplift

White objects motif (Ajax, gloves, shoes)

Hegemonic standards of 'cleanliness' and respectability

Diegetic audio

Sound that exists within the world of the play

Direct address effect in Rainbow's End

Implicates audiences in ongoing sovereignty struggles

Nan's 'band-aid over a sore' idiom refers to

Hessian fence's superficial/inadequate solution

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