Ice dreaming : reading whiteness in Kim Scott's 'Benang: from the heart'

摘要

Through a close reading of Kim Scott's Benang: from the heart, this thesisudinterrogates what whiteness in an Australian colonial context looks like from anudAboriginal perspective. Its central proposition is that Scott's narrator, Harley,uddiscovers whiteness as a consequence of discovering his Aboriginality. It suggestsudwhiteness is imbued with a power that arises through its invisibility and its abilityudto racialise and circumscribe non-white others. When this process is reversed, andudwhiteness is made visible, its power is diminished. Harley (re)places whitenessudinto an Aboriginal paradigm from within which he imagines a syncretic future forudAustralia.