International Research Journal of Education and Technology

True Country, the debut book by Kim Scott, depicts the author's struggle with his Aboriginal identity in the context of an ethnic group that has been deracinated, deprived of its culture, reliant on a reciprocity-demanding support system, and subjected to abhorrent ghettoization. The destructive assimilative mechanisms of the white Australian country are the obvious cause. Billy, the narrator, goes out on a rummage and restores the significance of authentic Aboriginal identity on both the personal and social level. Billy is motivated by the eagerness to find the spiritual truth concerning this culture and himself. True Aboriginal identity restoration is still an issue of revolutionary cultural resistance since identity is inherently heterogeneous, slick, unsteady, and temporal. The author finds a "true country" - that may be realised outside of the realm of “Dreamtime reality” while rejecting white deracinating practises. The present study is focussed on Scott's vitriolic writing style, which reveals a planned cultural opposition against the assimilationist white nation-states of Australia.

Keywords: Aboriginal, Assimilation, Marginalization, Self-discovery, Indigeneity.