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Discussion Post: Sally Morgan My Places Book
Five questions about this book "Sally Morgan's My Places" demonstrate evidence of having read and thought about the reading carefully. The depth of your analysis is more important than the word count/length of your response. (Write some details and personal interpretation.)
I. Aboriginality: The author does not find out about her aboriginality in a single monumental instance. Instead, slowly, through suspicion, hints, silences, and forced confessions, she comes to learn of her ancestry. Discuss three events that constitute part of the author's journey of ethnic self-consciousness. (write more on this question.)
II. Making Connections: How does this revelation of blackness in Morgan echo or reiterate those of our previous protagonists in Snake Cradle and Wild Cat Falling?
III. Humor I: Discuss three funny moments in Sally Morgan's My Place. (write more on this question.)
IV. Humor II: What is the significance of this humor for the author and her narrative? What can / does humor do?t
V. Documentary: First Australians: Freedom for our lifetime. Who is Simon Wonga? (the YouTube video).