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True stories : history, politics, Aboriginality / Inga Clendinnen
Bib ID 4230468
Format BookBook
Author Clendinnen, Inga
Description Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2008. 
132 p. ; 20 cm. 
ISBN 9781921351341 (pbk.) : 
Series Boyer lectures ; 1999 
Summary

"In 1999 Dr Inga Clendinnen delivered six lectures as part of the Boyer Lectures, a series broadcast nationally on ABC radio. True Stories is those lectures in essay form, released by Text for the first time since Inga was recognised with the title Officer in the Order of Australia in 2006. In True Stories, Inga declares her belief that democratic peoples need true stories about their past and urged responsiveness to a multiplicity of stories catching the experiences of different individuals in different situations. The reader catches the experience of individuals through fragments: a woman being manhandled on a beach, an old man remembering the hard lessons of his boyhood in a Jesuit mission, an old woman urgently dancing the history of her country and is given a frank and challenging review of race relations in Australia. True Stories allows us to better understand how this nation has come to be what it is today." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Previous ed.: Sydney : ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects Nationalism - Australia.  |  Citizenship - Australia.  |  Australia - Race relations.  |  Australia - History.
Other Authors Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Available From Swann House, 22 William Street Melbourne VIC 3000 
Details Collect From
N 994 C627
Copy: N pbk
Main Reading Room (Australian Collection)
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