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Bezig met laden... Born Into This (editie 2021)door Adam Thompson (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Interesting story collection featuring Aboriginal characters from Tasmania. Some funny, some sad, some shocking. ( ) The author is Aboriginal Tasmanian (known as pakana) and his 16 stories are all about and of the life of the Aboriginal Tasmanian population. As it turns out, Tasmania is just the biggest of the islands populated and used by the blackfellas (a term you will see more than once in these stories). The language is raw and occasionally crude but it works for this collection. The 16 stories are grounded in the here and now - from the alcoholism to the Australia Day protests; from the inane government plans to the locals trying to survive. It is an honest look - not everyone is good, not everyone does things for the greater good. There is romance but there is no romanticism in the book - life is hard, no point sugarcoating it. So the questions of identity and belonging become the important ones - both for the Aboriginal population and for the rest of the inhabitants. And there is something extremely uncomfortable in realizing that the people who were there first do not seem to belong anymore; that the island seems to be moving towards modernity, leaving its native children behind. And they have nowhere to go back to. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Fiction.
Literature.
Short Stories.
The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp and entertaining, often all at once. From an Aboriginal ranger 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, Adam Thompson presents a powerful indictment of colonialism and racism. With humour, pathos and the occasional sly twist, Thompson's characters confront discrimination, untimely funerals, classroom politics, the ongoing legacy of cultural destruction and – overhanging all like a discomforting, burgeoning awareness for both white and black Australia – the inexorable disappearance of the remnant natural world. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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