ABSTRACT
During the last three decades, the testimony and writing of indigenous peoples in white settler colonies has emerged and developed as a potentially powerful catalyst in the rewriting and revisiting of the official past. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is about one of the darkest chapters of Australian history: the Stolen Generations. Most non-Australians came to know about this story and the undercover genocide that it reprobates thanks to Phillip Noyce’s film, Rabbit-Proof Fence, which soon became a breakthrough production, for many the film of the Stolen Generations. Although the novel does contain scenes which clearly disclose the whites’ brutality towards the Aborigines, and the traumatic effect that this inhuman treatment has on these indigenous communities, it is also true that the narration on the whole lacks detailed descriptions of the feelings of extreme anguish and humiliation experienced by these girls and their relatives.
