TRAUMA AND FAMILY IN JACK DAVIS’S NO SUGAR

Abstract

The dramatic  works of  Jack Davis, the Aboriginal Australian playwright,  are significant in themselves in demonstrating  the politics of representation of family and trauma in Australian drama. Davis uses the strategy of showing the audience the Aboriginal reality rather than teaching them about the discriminations brought about by the coming of Europeans in Australia and their subsequent interference into Aboriginal society. This paper  argues that  Jack Davis’s No Sugar is a postcolonial play that demonstrates a dialectical  relationship  between  the anxieties of  trauma, displacement and the Aboriginal Australian  family in period of  the Stolen Generation.