Born into this / Adam Thompson.
Publication details: St Lucia, Queensland : UQP, 2021.Description: 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780702263118 (paperback)
- Politics and Government - Political action - Activism
- Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Australia Day / Survival Day
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Indigenous knowledge
- Environment - Land management
- Animals - Birds - Mutton birds
- Palawa people T16
- Race relations - Representation - Literature
- Literature and stories - Fiction
- Race relations - Attitudes
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction
- Short stories, Australian -- Tasmania -- 21st century
- Short stories, Australian
- Australian fiction -- Tasmania -- 21st century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Great Dog Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
- Badger Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
- Tamar Valley (NE Tas SK55-04)
- Launceston (NE Tas SK55-04)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- A823.4 23
- PR9619.4.T476 B67 2021
- Queensland Literary Awards Shortlist, 2021.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Short stories | THO | Available | 063424 |
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.
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.
Queensland Literary Awards Shortlist, 2021.