Who Is Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, formerly known as Kath Walker, is an Australian aboriginal poet. Her poems are politically charged and record the aboriginal resistance to White Australian cultural and political domination. Noonuccal’s poetry and activism can be seen as response to the coloniser’s master discourse which marginalises the natives as ‘others.’
Helen Tiffin in her essay “Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse” mentions that “the rereading and rewriting of the European historical and fictional record are vital and inescapable tasks.” (Tiffin 95) In the poems “Ballad Of The Totems” and “Biami”, Noonuccal describes aboriginal life, traditions and practises. She uses native myths to substitute the dominant colonial historical narrations
Helen Tiffin in her essay “Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse” mentions that “the rereading and rewriting of the European historical and fictional record are vital and inescapable tasks.” (Tiffin 95) In the poems “Ballad Of The Totems” and “Biami”, Noonuccal describes aboriginal life, traditions and practises. She uses native myths to substitute the dominant colonial historical narrations