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PART B: How are issues about Aboriginal/White relationships communicated in ‘The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith’ and two Aboriginal poems of your choice?
Issues concerning Aboriginal and White relationships at the turn of the twentieth century formally arose due to the white European culture dominating over the Aboriginal culture. Resulting form the White superiority, a majority of issues concerning Aboriginal and White relationships formed. Aboriginal people were discriminated against, sexually exploited, deprived of citizenship rights and had their possessions, including their land and children stolen from them.
Thomas Keneally, author of ‘The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith’ has produced a prose fiction novel through the use of historical facts, that communicates the struggles of a subordinate culture through the experiences of a ‘half caste’ Jimmie. The poem ‘Acacia Ridge’ composed by Oodgeroo Noonuccal echoes the theme of Aboriginal homes being destroyed and their land taken from them, carelessly by white people, contributing to the disintegration of the Aboriginal culture and identity. Archie Weller, through the poem ‘The Hunters’, has raised the issues concerning sexual exploitation of Aboriginal women and the disintegration of an individual’s self-worth, particularly in the perspective that white ‘hunters’ took advantage of Aboriginal women. Through the various techniques used within these three texts issues relating to Aboriginal/White relationships can be viewed due to the techniques communicated.
In the novel, ‘The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith’, Thomas Keneally has expressed the horrific experiences of the Aboriginal culture through the eyes of Jimmie Blacksmith, portraying the effects loss of land and cultural identity had on the typical Aboriginal personality.
Approximate Word count = 1202
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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