- Title
- Aboriginal Australian Picturebooks: Ceremonial Listening to Plants
- Creator
- Collins-Gearing, Brooke
- Relation
- Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds p. 33-50
- Relation
- Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39888-9_2
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Walking through the Australian bush is a walk through a living library. From the moment the Ancestors moved through Country, creating all the sentient beings, we can still see today, and those that we can’t, Australian plants and trees have held both physical and psychic, tangible and sacred knowledges. This chapter explores the possible portals of access that are opened to hearing the stories and languages of Australian plants and trees when shared by Aboriginal Australian peoples through the form of the picturebook. Such contemporary Australian books weave with ancient ways of knowing to create nurturing spaces for all readers to see, touch, smell, hold and taste the world around them. Through their own forms of Story and Language, plants and trees give insight into medicines, tools and food, as well as kinship, seasons and ceremony. When woven with picturebook modalities, they encourage embodied relationships with non-human and more-than-human elements of Country.
- Subject
- postcolonial literature; Indigenous literature; Critical plant studies; Australian literature; children's literature; young adult literature
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1499760
- Identifier
- uon:54784
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783031398902
- Language
- eng
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