Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World

Doctor 's Prescription for Enduring Wooreddy the Ending of the World is a 1983 novel by the Australian writer published Mudrooroo in which the colonization of Tasmania is considered from the perspective of Aboriginal Wooreddy. He will witness the humiliation and systematic extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Content

Born and raised on the island located southeast of Tasmania Bruny Iceland, Wooreddy as a child has a vision that marks him for the rest of his life. He learns that the end of the world is near, and decides at any price to survive up to this point. As an adult, he allies himself therefore with the missionary and later " Chief Protector of the Aborigines ," George Augustus Robinson, and accompanied him on his expeditions through the Tasmanian bush. During these forays Wooreddy establishes contact to several Aboriginal tribes for Robinson. Through extensive adaptation to the colonizers create he and his wife Trugernanna (also referred to showed to the public ) is to endure to the end. The doomsday brings the Aborigines, the end of all life as they know it: the death of their tribes, and almost all Tasmanian Aboriginals.

Short interpretation

In Wooreddy Doctor 's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World is contrary to the illustration in the Western chronicles of Europeans ignorant, uncivilized, inhuman. The invaders are incapable as the example of Robinson's is clearly to recognize the value of the culture they examine. The social structure of the indigenous communities they fail to recognize as well as the complexity of their languages.

Wooreddys perspective of events, priority is given to a few passages from the author. In contrast to retribution -seeking romantics like Robinson he observed after a scientific manner - hence his nickname " the good doctor". United with his mythical knowledge of the relationships in the world to have passed on to him the elders, he draws conclusions about the causes of the events around him and his possible reaction to it.

Nevertheless Mudrooroo avoiding to replace an ethnocentric vision of history with another. Rather, he revealed at the end of the novel, the bias also this version of the events by letting the basis on which assessments are based Wooreddy collapse. Mudrooroo accesses deceased indigenous personalities and individual stories from the history of Tasmania to create their own, as a fictional construction of it.

Swell

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  • Tompkins, Joanne. " 'It all Depends on What you Hear Story ': . Historiographic Metafiction and Colin Johnson 's Doctor 's Prescription for Enduring Wooreddy the Ending of the World and Witi Ihimaera 's The Matriarch Modern Fiction Studies, 36:4 (1990 ), 483-498.
  • Literary work
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Australian literature
  • Novel, epic
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