Topic: How do Wright and D’aguiar challenge their white audiences entitled perspectives through what has happened in the past?
In both Tom Wright’s, ‘Black Diggers’, and Fred D’Aguiar’s, ‘The Longest Memory’ disempowered characters constantly struggle against the power structure established by the status quo, but are ultimately silenced and never find their true identity. Through their historically based texts Wright and D’aguiar aim to give a voice to the voiceless. Wright and
D’aguiar do this to challenge their white audiences’ entitled perspectives and powerful legitimised views of the past, which have been widely accepted as the truth. They achieve this by delivering their texts through the perspectives of characters who are oppressed, …show more content…
An iconic figure established during WW1, which revolves around the concept of mateship. Wright does this in an attempt to include
Indigenous Australians in this well know Australian character, while also emphasising the underlying ideas behind his text. In contrast to D’aguiar’s novel, titled The Longest Memory, which implies the more personal and individual experience of Whitechapel. In his play, Black
Diggers, Wright conveys the racial discrimination of Indigenous Australians during the 20 th century and WW1. In comparison to D’aguiar’s fictional novel, The Longest memory, where he exposes the horrible oppression of African-Americans during the time-period of Slavery in early 19 th century Virginia, America. Despite having different settings, these texts are somewhat similar in the way they challenge their white audiences’ narrow minded entitled perspectives. In Black Diggers, Wright undermines the power and authority of the status quo. Whereas in
The Longest Memory, D’aguiar helps his white audience to understand the struggles faced when disempowered characters challenge the power structure. In both of these texts the disempowered suffer while the empowered prosper, leaving characters little …show more content…
In Black diggers the war creates a sense of hope for Indigenous Australian as they are able to feel equal. They are willing to go to war and sacrifice greatly in the hope for a better future. Whereas in The Longest Memory there is very little hope.
Black Diggers and The Longest Memory are fairly similar in the way they challenge their white audiences entitled perspectives. Though taking different settings, they are similar in the way they expose pieces of history that society would rather forget or ignore. Both of these texts show how disempowered characters can be dominated by the power structure.
In addition, they both highlight how this can lead to history that is built on one sided perspectives. Wright and D’aguiar both use the memories of their characters as a way of challenging what their white audience believe to be true. They are also alike, in the way that they aim to provoke their audience to make change by showing how hopeless change is without their help. These authors have more similarities than differences in relation to how they aim to challenge their white audiences entitled perspectives through what has happened in the
In both Tom Wright’s, ‘Black Diggers’, and Fred D’Aguiar’s, ‘The Longest Memory’ disempowered characters constantly struggle against the power structure established by the status quo, but are ultimately silenced and never find their true identity. Through their historically based texts Wright and D’aguiar aim to give a voice to the voiceless. Wright and
D’aguiar do this to challenge their white audiences’ entitled perspectives and powerful legitimised views of the past, which have been widely accepted as the truth. They achieve this by delivering their texts through the perspectives of characters who are oppressed, …show more content…
An iconic figure established during WW1, which revolves around the concept of mateship. Wright does this in an attempt to include
Indigenous Australians in this well know Australian character, while also emphasising the underlying ideas behind his text. In contrast to D’aguiar’s novel, titled The Longest Memory, which implies the more personal and individual experience of Whitechapel. In his play, Black
Diggers, Wright conveys the racial discrimination of Indigenous Australians during the 20 th century and WW1. In comparison to D’aguiar’s fictional novel, The Longest memory, where he exposes the horrible oppression of African-Americans during the time-period of Slavery in early 19 th century Virginia, America. Despite having different settings, these texts are somewhat similar in the way they challenge their white audiences’ narrow minded entitled perspectives. In Black Diggers, Wright undermines the power and authority of the status quo. Whereas in
The Longest Memory, D’aguiar helps his white audience to understand the struggles faced when disempowered characters challenge the power structure. In both of these texts the disempowered suffer while the empowered prosper, leaving characters little …show more content…
In Black diggers the war creates a sense of hope for Indigenous Australian as they are able to feel equal. They are willing to go to war and sacrifice greatly in the hope for a better future. Whereas in The Longest Memory there is very little hope.
Black Diggers and The Longest Memory are fairly similar in the way they challenge their white audiences entitled perspectives. Though taking different settings, they are similar in the way they expose pieces of history that society would rather forget or ignore. Both of these texts show how disempowered characters can be dominated by the power structure.
In addition, they both highlight how this can lead to history that is built on one sided perspectives. Wright and D’aguiar both use the memories of their characters as a way of challenging what their white audience believe to be true. They are also alike, in the way that they aim to provoke their audience to make change by showing how hopeless change is without their help. These authors have more similarities than differences in relation to how they aim to challenge their white audiences entitled perspectives through what has happened in the