Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country.

Pascoe, Bruce.

ISBN 10: 0855755490 / ISBN 13: 9780855755492

Published by Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2007

About this Item

Paperback octavo, very good condition, spine little creased, light toning inside covers, bottom corners tips covers little creased, minor edgewear. 302 pp. Indigenous writer Bruce Pascoe provides a powerful, lyrical and passionate new book. He asks us to fully acknowledge our past and the way these actions continue to influence Australia today, both in a physical and intellectual sense. The author draws on the past through a critical examination of major historical works and witness accounts, and finds uncanny parallels between the techniques and language used there to today's national political climate.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country.
• Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0855755490
• ISBN 13: 9780855755492
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Seller catalogs:
  • ABORIGINES

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Synopsis

A wide-ranging, personal and powerful work that resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory, and community. Ranging across the national contemporary political stage, this book critiques the great Australian silence when it comes to dealing respectfully with the construction of the nation’s Indigenous past.

About the Author

Bruce Pascoe is a widely published and award-winning writer, editor, and anthologist. He produced a dictionary of the Wathaurong language.