Convincing ground [[electronic resource] ] : learning to fall in love with your country / / Bruce Pascoe
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| Autore: |
Pascoe Bruce <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Convincing ground [[electronic resource] ] : learning to fall in love with your country / / Bruce Pascoe
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| Pubblicazione: | Canberra, : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 994.0049915 |
| Soggetto topico: | Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of - History |
| Aboriginal Australians - Government relations - History | |
| Aboriginal Australians - Ethnic identity | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Australia Race relations History |
| Australia Colonization History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Convincing ground |
| ISBN: | 0-85575-694-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453343003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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