Discursive Denial of Citizenship in Alice Nannup's When the Pelican Laughed

This chapter takes up the issue of the denial of discursive citizenship to Indigenous Australians in their native land, and in doing so lays bare the very tenets by which the Indigenous people of Australia are denied discursive citizenship as depicted in Alice Nannup’s When the Pelican Laughed. In order to do so, the chapter falls back upon the parameters of equal citizenship used in Chapter 3 concerning Dalits in India, in order to show how discursive equality was not sufficiently bestowed upon Indigenous Australians.