The author focuses on the writings of three major young adult ficton writers, John Muk Muk Burke, Melissa Lucashenko, and Tara June Winch, which represent a genre in Aboriginal writing that traces a main character's journey from adolescence to adulthood. Further, the author pays particular attention to 'identity construction, belonging, and the search for a sense of place for the yound Aboriginal protagonists in late twentieth- and early twenty-first century Australia.' (Source: Introduction)
'John Muk Muk Burke was born in Narrandera, New South Wales, in 1946. His mother was Wiradjuri and his father was Irish. He left school, aged 15, and worked at several jobs before entering the Auckland Teachers College in New Zealand in 1967. In 1992 he joined the Centre for Aboriginal and Islander Studies at the Northern Territory University, as lecturer in history and English literature' (Introduction)
The author focuses on the writings of three major young adult ficton writers, John Muk Muk Burke, Melissa Lucashenko, and Tara June Winch, which represent a genre in Aboriginal writing that traces a main character's journey from adolescence to adulthood. Further, the author pays particular attention to 'identity construction, belonging, and the search for a sense of place for the yound Aboriginal protagonists in late twentieth- and early twenty-first century Australia.' (Source: Introduction)
