colonisation impact Flashcards
walks past the cork trees. She sees someone in the shadows.
stage direction
keep away from them cork trees. - Nan
cork trees, introduced specis
ERROL: There’s these gnarled trees down the track. DOLLY: The cork trees.
ERROL: All twisty and rough.
DOLLY: I know them.
ERROL: That can be our special meeting spot!
special place for errol
Is that why Aunty Ester’s down at the cork trees, drinkin’ with the goo—?
place of hurt
Que sera, sera. [Beat.] Please don’t tell Mum
about the cork trees.
song motif to bolster the melancholy
“Inside their humpy, Nan Dear and Gladys are rebuilding after a flood has devastated their home. Everything below three feet is sodden and mud-splayed.”
prologue stage direction
Nan: “And hospitals is where they take our babies away.”
stolen generation
Nan: “I don’t care what you think! You and your visiting hours. Your rules. No singalongs after dark. Your spying. You, mister, can go to blazes!”
housing control
Gladys: “We demand suitable housing…We’re second class citizens in our own country…We demand the right to make our own decisions…”
housing control
leon
physical example of colonisation impact
Gladys: It should have been where they built us housing, being the highest land around here… but no, they decided to turn it into the town tip…
housing control
“stand up - as if at attention”
around inspector,
“shes seventeen. they’d make her work for someone like they did [Gladys]”
forced removel
“the inspector appraises dolly”
objectifying
. Least here we do things our way
—no one breathin’ down our necks.
surveillance
It’s concrete, small, white and featureless
new housing at rumbalara
NAN starts to cough (and coughs whenever she is in the house from now on).
physical aversion
Nan: ‘They’ve had it hard, those lads.’ (p. 139)
intergenerational trauma
