AustLit

Scott explores an 'understanding of the artistic nature of history-making and its political implications' (29) via an examination of two texts which she argues, offer 'non-traditional perspectives in reintepreting history' (21). Scott's comprehensive analysis of the two narratives, Donald Duck (by Chinese-American writer Frank Chin) and Do Not Go Around the Edges: Poems (Daisy Utemorrah), looks at the different narrative techniques employed by both novels as well as reading the illustrations which accompany Utemorrah's poetry, in terms of the representation of excluded and/or marginalized subjectivities - Chinese-Americans and Aboriginal Australians respectively. She posits that both novels 'focus explicitly and/or implicitly on the process of history-making and meaning-making for the individual and involve questions not only of interpretation, but of understanding what 'really' happened' (29).