The Loss And Reconstruction Of The Female Cultural Identity In My Place From The Perspective Of Post-colonial Feminism

Sally Morgan is one of the most famous Aboriginal writers and artists in Australia.Her mother Gladys is an Australian of Aboriginal origin and her father Bill is a white man.Sally has created many works.My place,published in 1987,is Sally’s first work.As a rare indigenous literary work,this novel is regarded as a milestone in indigenous women’s literature.Once published,it has been welcomed by Australian citizens and scholars all over the world.From the perspective of non-white,this book reveals the history of colonial oppression of Australian aborigines by telling the stories of three generations of Sally’s family,namely Sally’s grandmother Daisy,mother Gladys and Uncle Arthur.Post-colonial feminism is a new theory integrating post-colonialism and feminism.Because of dissatisfaction with the discrimination against women in post-colonial countries,Spivak,as a post colonial feminist theorist,calls on intellectuals,especially female intellectuals,to speak for the oppressed women.Post-colonial feminism emphasizes that individual racial oppression or gender oppression does not exist,and post-colonial women are in multiple oppression,so national oppression,gender oppression,class oppression and religious oppression are the objects of post-colonial feminism research.This paper mainly takes My Place as the research object,and tries to use the theory of post-colonial feminism to discuss the reflection on the cultural identity of Australian Aboriginal women in My Place on the basis of previous studies.Through close reading of the text,on the premise that the author puts Australian Indigenous women at the center of the text,the thesis tries to show the living state of Australian Indigenous women under racial discrimination,gender discrimination and class oppression.Multiple oppression and exploitation have resulted in the marginalization of Australian Aboriginal women,making them become male appendages and tools,and finally led to the loss of Australian Aboriginal women’s cultural identity.On this basis,this paper analyzes the efforts of Australian Indigenous women to reconstruct their cultural identity by eliminating racist consciousness,resisting patriarchy and pursuing class status,so as to reveal the importance of the reconstruction of indigenous women’s cultural identity under the oppression of post-colonialism.Only by changing the oppressive situation of indigenous women and breaking the unequal gender relations can they be treated equally.