Convincing ground : learning to fall in love with your country / Bruce Pascoe
- Bib ID:
- 3821745
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-
- Description:
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- Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007
- x, 302 p., [4] leaves of plates. : col. ill., 1 map, 1 port. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780855755492
- Summary:
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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. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourke, but in the more satanic furnace of Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground and Werribee. He knows we can't reverse the past, but we can bring our soul in from the fog of delusion. He proposes a way forward, beyond shady intellectual argument and immature nationalism: strengths intact; weaknesses acknowledged and addressed.
- Notes:
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- National Library of Australia's N copy signed by the author, 28 November 2018.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 282-290.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Education - Skills and curriculum - Business
- Gunditjmara / Gurndidy / Dhaurwurd-Wurrung people (S20) (Vic SJ54-11)
- Kulin people (S21.1) (Vic SI54, SJ54)
- Wathawurrung / Wada wurrung / Wathaurong language (S29) (Vic SJ54-12)
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Wathawurrung / Wada wurrung / Wathaurong people (S29) (Vic SJ54-12)
- Colonisation
- Australia -- Race relations -- History
- Australia -- Colonization -- History
- Victoria (Vic)
- Cape Otway / Otway Range (W Vic SJ54-12)
- Available From:
- GPO Box 553 Canberra ACT 2601
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2007
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