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Kullark by Jack Davis : Summary

Introduction: Kullark is a play written by an Aboriginal Australian writer Jack Davis. The play represents the author’s real life experience as an aborigine. Kullark depicts the postcolonial Australia under the whites and also depicts the sufferings of the native people, experienced for the sake of race/skin colour. The author has used various stage techniques like symbolism and stage settings. The play deals with themes like Identity, marginalization, racism and colonialism. Summary:                   The play has two different plots interwoven with one another. First plot depicts the present life of native Australian Alec and another one deals with the past history of colonization. The history begins with the British settlement in Australia. Captain Stirling, the founder of Swan River Colony and Frazer meet Yagan’s father and mother and offers their dresses. They find the aborigines friendly and establish the colony near Swan River. Thus the British colony is est