• Sukhvinderjit Kaur Chopra

Sally Morgan is an eminent writer of Australia. She is the recipient of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Award in 1987 and also, the Western Australian Citizen of the year for Arts, Literature and Culture in 1989. The novelMy Place, first published in 1987 is an autobiographical account of her kith and kin who had to undergo tremendous trauma on account of European colonization in Australia. In this book, she narrates the forced assimilation of the aboriginals into the ‘white’ community through coercive methods authenticated by law. To redeem her family’s dignity, the authoress goes down the lane of history by meeting many people who would help her give details of the past about them. She learns how the aboriginals were alienated from their own homeland. So the title of her novel is expressing the rights of the natives of Australia over their motherland.

Australia, trauma, colonization, ‘forced assimilation’, aboriginals, alienated, rights.

"Sally Morgan’s My Place: A Personal Saga Of Colonization In Australia.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.83-85, January 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDX06014.pdf

"Sally Morgan’s My Place: A Personal Saga Of Colonization In Australia.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp83-85, January 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDX06014.pdf