| 英文摘要 |
This essay analyzes how contemporary Australian Aboriginal storytelling, exemplified by Doris Pilkington Garimara’s book Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) and its film adaptation by director Phillip Noyce, transcribes the various experiences of displacement and resistance of Aboriginal peoples and provides a basis for a collective listening/rereading of the nation’s complex colonial history. The various guises of displacement and resistance examined in this essay include: the involuntary migration of Aboriginal peoples, especially the Nyungar and the Mardudjara, along the rabbit-proof fence towards government-assigned settlements such as Jigalong (equivalent to “reservations” in the US); the forced relocation of mixed-race children (the Stolen Generations) to missionary camps to be made culturally white; and the children’s heroic journey of escape and homecoming--again navigated through the rabbit-proof fence. The essay aims to demonstrate that Aboriginal storytelling not only discloses a history of disruption imposed by European settlement, but, perhaps more importantly, registers Aboriginal peoples’ strength to resist, adopt, and reconnect. |
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