Lit Sem 2 Exam Prep

white stucco dreaming

Wagan Watson reflects on his own personal upbringing as an Aboriginal Australian, commenting on the ability to have joyous and memorable experiences in youth in contrast to the disenfranchising of Wagan Watson and his family. Wagan Watson discusses his feelings of loss and betrayal for his conformity to Western society, and the experience of growing up as a minority.

• white stucco dreaming as a repeated motif throughout Wagan Watson's poetry
  • representative of Indigenous Australia - dominated surburbs $\implies$ people living in white stucco, who hold the connection to the dreaming
  • alternative interpretation: white plaster over black dreaming $\implies$ westernisation, assimilation of Indigenous culture, in particular their skin tone

memory as fragmented - stream of consciousness

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