TRAUMA AND FAMILY IN JACK DAVIS’S NO SUGAR

The dramatic works of jack davis, the aboriginal australian playwright, are significant in themselves in demonstrating the politics of representation of family and trauma in australian drama. davis uses the strategy of showing the audience the aboriginal reality rather than teaching them about the discriminations brought about by the coming of europeans in australia and their subsequent interference into aboriginal society. this paper argues that jack davis’s no sugar is a postcolonial play that demonstrates a dialectical relationship between the anxieties of trauma, displacement and the aboriginal australian family in period of the stolen generation.