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Sally Morgan's My Place : Exposing the (Ab)original 'Text' behind Whitefellas' History single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Sally Morgan's My Place : Exposing the (Ab)original 'Text' behind Whitefellas' History
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Author's abstract : In presenting an autobiographical account of her own and her family's life experience, Sally Morgan exposes the Aborigines' post-contact history - hitherto obliterated, 'overwritten', as all colonised peoples' histories are, by the official, historical accounts of the colonial culture. The quest for her Aboriginal identity further enables Morgan both to un- and re-cover a cultural heritage that had been deliberately obscured by the white 'script' superimposed upon it.

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    y separately published work icon Commonwealth Commonwealth : Essays and Studies vol. 25 no. 1 2002 Z1027999 2002 periodical issue Palimpsests 2002 pg. 41-58
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  • My Place Sally Morgan , 1987 single work autobiography
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