Authorial Purpose and Audience (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River)

Assert Noongar sovereignty through Country's voice

Vast stretches of geological history (billions of years)

Build bridges between Noongar & settler worlds via acknowledgement

Dreaming serpent who created the river

Noongar name for the river

Colonial assumption recent history is meaningful timeframe

Dreaming & physical reality coexist as unified truth

Country experiences modification as lived rupture, not abstract

Billion-year perspective that dwarfs colonial history