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Abstract

New literatures in English emerging from the colonized continent of Australia are replete with Post-colonial musings on problems of ―lost homeland‖ and ―identity‖ and in such a context, the role of historical fiction as a mode of self-discovery is developing into a writer‘s tool for creation of ―a focal point of cultural consciousness and social change‖. Such an act is undeniably a symbolic ―writing back‖ to the hegemonic centre and islatent with a myriad of complexities in an increasingly multicultural world. The colonized continent of Australia practices multiculturalism in the sense that it has demographic conditions for ethnic and cultural diversity, though in reality, it is just the opposite leading to a number of writers like Sally Morgan, Kim Scott and Doris Pilkington writing about the multicultural past. Thus Doris Pilkington in her FOLLOW THE RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (1996) tells a true story concerning her mother and two other ―mixed-race‖ aboriginal girls who were taken away forcefully from their native land Jigalong to the Moore River Native Settlement (far north of Western Australia). From the late in nineteenth century to the late 1960s, about 70 years State Govt. started removing the mixed-race Aboriginal indigenous children from their families often by force. It became the controversial issue of ―Stolen Generation‖ (it became a hot topic because it deals with the separation of the children from their parents—an emotional business).

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