Książka Convincing Ground Bruce Pascoe

Convincing Ground

Learning to Fall in Love with your Country

Autor: Bruce Pascoe
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Convincing Ground is a wide-ranging, personal, and powerful work which resonates with historical and...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2007
strony
272
EAN
9780855755492
ISBN
9780855755492
Enbook ID
06427435
Waga
574
Wymiary
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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