I denne study guide får du hjælp til at analysere novellen “N'goola” af Katharine Susannah Prichard. Udover analysehjælpen kan du finde et summary af novellen samt forslag til at fortolke og perspektivere den.
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Titel: “N’goola” (1959)
Forfatter: Katharine Susannah Prichard
Genre: Short story
Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) var en australsk forfatter. Hun er bedst kendt for sin Goldfields-romantrilogi, der følger forskellige karakterer under den periode, man kalder guldfeberen, i Western Australia. Novellen “N’goola” blev udgivet i novellesamlingen N’goola, and Other Stories.
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The title of the short story “N’goola” by Katharine Susannah Prichard may be said to have a literal as well as symbolic meaning.
In the literal sense, N’goola is the Aboriginal name of one of the main characters. Having been taken from her family at the age of six and placed in a missionary institution to be raised according to white customs, N’goola also received an English name – Mary – and forgot her Aboriginal name: “ ‘N’goola.’ Mary was disturbed by something vaguely familiar in the name.” (p. 36, l. 3). However, she still feels a connection with the name, suggesting her connection with her Aboriginal roots.
Gwelnit’s story about N’goola reveals that the name was inspired by a “small brown and yellow flower which grew along the creeks and in the swamps of his boujera” (p. 40, ll. 29-30). The colors of the flower seem to be symbolic of N’goola’s skin color and, implicitly, of her double heritage as a woman with an Aboriginal mother and a white father (p. 40, l. 2-6; ll. 15-16).
