Post Colonial Discourse

One might be inclined to suggest that Aboriginal writing is the ‘new genre,’ offering its own syntax, appealing to those who would like to situate the ‘Aboriginal book’ as the representative of Aboriginality: the written and purely ‘factual’ notion that ‘this is what it means to be home-grown – the Indigenous Other.’ However to bracket-off Aboriginal writing as a socially progressive fact is, perhaps, illusory; with Aboriginal writers previously unheard of (and of course representing what …

…many) – a tradition somehow. In every airport in Japan you will find among the shops at least one selling wooden carvings of a head that can be stood on either end and still maintain the image of a head as a double image (a bit like the head on ‘Guest Ginger Ale’). This is all that is left of the Ainu, along with a sticker written in Japanese that says ‘Chugoku sei’ – made in China.