“Can One Know the Other?”: The Ambivalence of Postcoloniallsm in Chocolat, Warrior Marks and Mississippi Masala

Paganism does not lie in a celebration of Aboriginal rootedness but in the fact that, whatever it is, the Aborigines' “authenticity” or “identity” is radically inaccessible to us. Keep the question open, imagine that I make no negative value judgement in saying… that Aborigines are not “human,” because by considering them “human” (exemplars of an abstract nature that we share) we victimize them, make them more like us than they are. Their identity remains radically untranslatable, heterogeneous to western modernist rationality.