JOSUGA: JOS JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES

Settler colonies within postcolonial spaces continue to expose a wide range of thematic preoccupations that re-interrogate the colonial experience as an unbalanced one. This paper aims to present how Aboriginal literature is visualised in the fiction of Scott, serving as a medium to expose the extent to which racial mixtures lead to the dislocation of the indigenes from their long-held culture and traditional beliefs. This could be depicted in the ways in which the presentation of Australia as a “Terra Nullius” endangered pre-colonial harmony that extends to a more refined postcolonial discourse. Guided by Postcolonial theory and new historicism, this study therefore probes into the confines of hybridity and cultural ambivalence as significant facets in locating Aboriginal literature in Kim Scott’s Benang. 

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