TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thompson,Adam
TI  - Born into this
SN  - 9780702263118 (paperback)
AV  - PR9619.4.T476 B67 2021
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - St Lucia, Queensland
PB  - UQP
KW  - Politics and Government - Political action - Activism
KW  - aiatsiss
KW  - Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Australia Day / Survival Day
KW  - Social identity - Aboriginality
KW  - Indigenous knowledge
KW  - Environment - Land management
KW  - Animals - Birds - Mutton birds
KW  - Palawa people T16
KW  - aiatsisl
KW  - Race relations - Representation - Literature
KW  - Literature and stories - Fiction
KW  - Race relations - Attitudes
KW  - Aboriginal Tasmanians
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Short stories, Australian
KW  - Tasmania
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Great Dog Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
KW  - aiatsisp
KW  - Badger Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
KW  - Tamar Valley (NE Tas SK55-04)
KW  - Launceston (NE Tas SK55-04)
KW  - Tasmania (Tas)
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - Indigenous collection
KW  - lcgft
N1  - The old tin mine -- Honey -- Born into this -- Invasion Day -- Jack's island -- Summer girl -- Descendant -- Sonny -- Aboriginal Alcatraz -- Black eye -- The blackfellas from here -- Your own Aborigine -- Bleak conditions -- Time and tide -- Kite -- Morpork -- Acknowledgements
N2  - Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes - identity, racism, heritage destruction - from a wholly original perspective. The stories in Born Into This throw light on a world of unique cultural practice and perspective, from Indigenous rangers trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions. To this mix Adam Thompson manages to bring humour, pathos and occasionally a sly twist as his characters confront racism, untimely funerals, classroom politics and, overhanging all like a discomforting, burgeoning awareness for both white and black Australia, the inexorable damage and disappearance of the remnant natural world
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