Situating Childhood: A Reading of Spatiality in Aboriginal Picture Books
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2005vol15no1art1261Keywords:
picture books, Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal authors, Bob Randall, Kunyi June-Anne McInerney, Elaine Russell, A is for Aunty, Tracker Tjugingji, embodied space, colonialismAbstract
Three picture books by Aboriginal authors, Bob Randall and Kunyi June-Anne McInerney's 'Tracker Tjugingji', and Elaine Russell's 'A is for Aunty' and 'The Shack that Dad Built' are considered arguing that they represent Australian childhoods in ways which refer to and mobilise Aboriginal conceptualisations of embodied space. The analysis of these Aboriginal picture books insists on local, specific formulations of place, which are shaped by colonialism, but which reappropriate Aboriginal spaces.
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