Convincing Ground

Name: Convincing Ground
Brand: Aboriginal Studies Press
SKU: 9780855755492
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Learning to Fall in Love with your Country

Autor: Bruce Pascoe

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Aboriginal Studies Press

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Convincing Ground is a wide-ranging, personal, and powerful work which resonates with historical and...

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Autor

Bruce Pascoe

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2007

Stránek

272

EAN

9780855755492

ISBN

9780855755492

Enbook ID

06427435

Vydavatel

Aboriginal Studies Press

Hmotnost

574

Rozměry

157 x 230 x 25

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Convincing Ground is a wide-ranging, personal, and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory, and community. This study covers their national contemporary political stage, critiquing the great Australian silence when it comes to dealing respectfully with the construction of the nation's Indigenous past. The book examines early colonial behavior on Gunditchmurra lands (near Portland, Victoria) and the shaping of Australians, then and now, physically and intellectually. Through a close, critical examination of the major historical works and witness accounts, Convincing Ground draws uncanny parallels between the techniques, language, and results of the invasion to contemporary times. For the author, Bruce Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka, and the back of Bourke, but in the more satanic furnace of Australias Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground, and Werribee. Pascoe knows the pas

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