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The stolen generation and its effects upon identity of the Aboriginal people in Sally Morgan’s My Place

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Ali Baram Mohammed,Latef Berzenji

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The stolen generation are the children from the Aboriginal Australians who were taken away from their parents from (1907) until around (1970). The white authority of Australia would steal the Aboriginal children and displace them in order to brainwash and ethnocide them, which greatly affects the psyche of the children and their parents. The survivors of this practice still suffer its longterm consequences and cannot relate to their cultural heritage. Sally Morgan, an Aboriginal writer, in her autobiography My Place reveals the atrocities the Aboriginal people have gone through in their country by the consecuetive acts of the government. This study examines the traumatic effects of the stolen generation on the identity of the Aboriginal people through Frantz Fanon’s theory of Psychoanalysis.

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