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'Wild Cat Falling, the rebellious, anti-colonial story by the black Australian author,
Mudrooroo, tells us what 'belonging' means in Australia, when one is other than white.
Written in an autobiographical mode, Mudrooroo's first novel, Wild Cat Falling is an
avant-garde as it presents an interventionist discourse for the first time in the literary
history of Australia directed towards opening up the space for self-determined
representation by an Aboriginal. The novel retells the continuing entrapment of the
Indigenous minority in an inequitable network of social, economic and cultural
relationship that they have inherited from British conquest. This paper explores how the
issues of identity and belonging make Wild Cat Falling an important interventionist
discourse.' (Author's abstract, p. 154).
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Identity and Belonging in Mudrooroo’s Wild Cat Falling
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
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