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Record Nr.

UNINA9910543959803321

Autore

Pascoe Bruce <1947->

Titolo

Convincing ground [[electronic resource] ] : learning to fall in love with your country / / Bruce Pascoe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007

ISBN

0-85575-694-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

994.0049915

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of - History

Aboriginal Australians - Government relations - History

Aboriginal Australians - Ethnic identity

Electronic books.

Australia Race relations History

Australia Colonization History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- One Franks is Dead -- Two History, How it Starts -- Three The Lakes -- Four Lady Macbeth's Clean Hands -- Five The Lie of the Land -- Six The Psychology of the Frontier -- Seven Brave Explorers -- Eight Lake Corangamite -- Nine The Raised Sword -- Ten The Great Australian Forge -- Eleven The Great Australian Face -- Twelve Golden Boy -- Thirteen Don't Mention the War -- Fourteen The Language of War -- Fifteen The Language of Resistance -- Sixteen Native Born -- Seventeen True Hunter -- Eighteen Germaine to the Problem -- Nineteen The Whispering Land -- Twenty Elbows on the Bar -- Appendices -- I. Wathaurong Language Sample -- II. Place names of the Geelong-Ballarat Region -- III. Jillong Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts and local histories -- Major references -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Convincing ground is a wide-ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community.Pascoe ranges across the national contemporary political stage, critiquing the great



Australian silence when it comes to dealing respectfully with the construction of the nation's Indigenous past.