The Use of Images to Explore the Indigenous Experience of Conflict in Australian Children's Picturebooks

Australian children’s picturebook authors and illustrators who choose armed conflict as their subject matter inevitably grapple with the paradox that, while war is a central component of national identity, the experience of Indigenous peoples remains, at best, underrepresented. This article uses the...

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Main Authors: Baguley, Margaret, Kerby, Martin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2023
Subjects:
Children's picture books
Indigenous children's picture books
war
conflict
national identity
Battle of Meewah
First Nations
Online Access:https://research.usq.edu.au/item/z0w6y/the-use-of-images-to-explore-the-indigenous-experience-of-conflict-in-australian-children-s-picturebooks
https://research.usq.edu.au/download/7b576b5775b3a39ad3f759a59fd82ac2c8130f882064c9439ff3f2e97229d63d/212936/FINAL_2_6_23_Revised_Article_Bookbird_%20%28002%29%20-%20cx%20comments.pdf
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Summary:Australian children’s picturebook authors and illustrators who choose armed conflict as their subject matter inevitably grapple with the paradox that, while war is a central component of national identity, the experience of Indigenous peoples remains, at best, underrepresented. This article uses the ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions developed by Clare Painter et al. to compare how the Indigenous experience of conflict is represented in the Australian children’s picturebooks Alfred’s War (Bin Salleh and Fry) and Multuggerah and the Sacred Mountain (Uhr and O’Halloran).

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