THE REPRESENTATION OF TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN JACK DAVIS'S NO SUGAR
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https://doi.org/10.36317/kaj/2023/v1.i57.12367Keywords:
transgenerational trauma, Jack Davis, DavisAboriginality, a novel, Literature and poetryAbstract
This is a study in the role of transgenerational trauma and its effect on the Aboriginal dramatic work. Using trauma studies within a postcolonial framework, this paper shows how Jack Davis manipulates the stage to give voice to the unspeakable trauma of Aboriginal Australian woman in No Sugar. This paper attempts to read this play as an indictment against both imperial and patriarchal ideologies that tend to disenfranchise many generations of the women in an Aboriginal postcolonial context.
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