aust lit

This essay will investigate the representations of indigeneity in the novels It’s Raining in Mango by Thea Astley and The Golden Age by Louis Nowra as well as in the non-fictional texts, “Yagan” by G. F. Moore, “A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson” by Watkin Tench and “A New Voyage Round the World: 1688” by William Dampier. This essay will reveal that in the two novels, indigeneity is represented similarly as a deep sense of connection to land and to family, a belief in the importance of ancestral roots and of the preservation of culture that can extend to white families as well as to native peoples. It will show that this representation of indigeneity does not apply to the non-fictional texts, and that these texts are naïve and presumptuous in their representation of indigeneity.
In both the novels, representations of indigeneity extend to white families as well as to native peoples. Throughout Its Raining in Mango, indigeneity is represented as ...