The Signs of Mental Life: Understanding the Impact of Transculturalism on the Primitive Landscape in Selective Judith Wright Poems

Abstract

A unique interpretation of land, which influenced and continues to influence human relationships with the Earth. Societies are not sensitized to the natural world in ways that affirm indigenous modes of being and knowing. Indigenous cultures and life ways need to be valued, especially traditional environmental knowledge which includes fire management, regenerative agriculture and climate adaptation. The primitive inhabitants adore carrying over their structural pattern of living style, stereotypes of culture, rituals, tradition and beliefs to the upcoming generation via carvings, rock art, body markings, folk lore and sermons in the ceremonies. The term ‘Migration’ created magical revolution among the innocent nomads. As a result, non – indigenous settlers pollute the landscape, customs and traditions and culture of the indigenous people. Aboriginal inhabitants are still living and preserving their cultures despite the deleterious effects of loss through oppression and settler colonialism. This article analysis the aboriginal intense feelings of searching for identity, disability, quest for the past, oppression in the hands of the white officers and the non – English – speaking immigrants through the selective poems of Judith Wright.