doris pilkington garimara follow the rabbit proof fence

Pilkington herself was brought up in the Moore River Native Settlement, a fact which she keeps from her readers until the book’s very end, and which frames the book’s themes of loss and dispossession in a whole new light by showing how generations on generations of Aboriginal people have been affected by the greed and pride of the white settlers who colonized Australia centuries ago.

An awestruck narrator of her mother’s and her aunts’ legendary trek through the bush, Pilkington reveres both her family’s history and her culture’s history, and composed this book as an ode to both.

Assimilationist policy deemed these girls were taken from their kin and their land in order to be made white. Outraged by the stolen past, present, and future of her people, Pilkington composes a narrative in which themes of desperation and desolation, racism and colonialism, and the importance of family, culture, and identity combine to demonstrate the resilience of hope and the empowerment that can come with reclaiming one’s identity through storytelling. It is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Pilkington contrasts her mother’s story with stories of early but equally devastating Aboriginal encounters with the white settlers who would go on to decimate Aboriginal populations and culture. The author of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence and the daughter of Molly, the half-caste girl whose incredible journey forms the heart and soul of the narrative. Chapter 12 focuses on Doris Pilkington Garimaras Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, which reconstructs, through firsthand testimony and archival. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington 4.0 (10) Paperback 15.95 17.95 Save 11 Paperback 15.95 eBook 11.

Doris pilkington garimara follow the rabbit proof fence