РАСИЗАМ КАО СТАДИЈУМ КОЛОНИЈАЛИЗМА У ПОЕТИЦИ Б. ВОНГАРА
Racism as a stage of colonialism in the poetic of B. Wongar

Summary/Abstract: This paper will examine the historical, cultural, and anthropological aspects of the works of B. Wongar, through the novels Raki and Manhunt, plays Balang-An Village, The stone in my pocket, and The Poplars, as well as the autobiography Dingoes Den. All these works have a common theme of racism, an ideology which encompasses the suffering and dying of Aboriginal people, as well as that of the other nations of different skin colour. This paper will thus strive to conclude that colonialism was the generator of the prevailing racial theories – an economic imperative of the profit gain which produced numerous pseudo-scientific hypotheses, responsible for violence and oppression over millions of people. Based on racial prejudice it resulted in free labor and exploitable ore, be it gold or uranium. Thus, one cannot easily overlook the fact that national socialism was not an aberration within the European humanist thought, but a result as such. The current ethnocide over Aboriginal people might help us understand that the apparitions of racist thought are not just a history textbook curiosity, but an ideology deeply rooted in the anti-constitutional acts against the Aborigines, which is where Wongar’s subversive poetics posit itself to record the voice of the ever-marginalized.

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