Convincing Ground
Learning to Fall in Love with your Country
$39.22
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2007
Summary
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, beyon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780855755492 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0855755490 |
| Author: | Bruce Pascoe |
| Publisher: | Aboriginal Studies Press |
| Imprint: | Aboriginal Studies Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 570g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 150mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
.“..This beautifully written book, with its fierce determination to recognise and right the wrongs of history, is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where Aboriginal people are coming from.” –Paul Burns, “Reviews in Australian Studies”, Vol 2, No 7, 2007“In prose of lyrical clarity and uncompromising honesty, Bruce Pascoe invites readers to be awakened, enthralled by fresh and breath-taking truths about the story of Australia. “Convincing Ground “is unique. –“Carmel Bird”“The author’s greatest strength is his construction of a narrative comparing contemporary Australian politics, culture and identity with the formative years of contact histories.” –Steve Kinnane
About The Author
Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe is a widely published and award-winning writer, editor and anthologist. A dictionary of the Wathaurong language has been compiled by the author.
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