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Convincing Ground
Bruce Pascoe
其他書名
Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country
出版Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007
主題History / GeneralHistory / Australia & New ZealandHistory / Social HistorySocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Indigenous Studies
ISBN08557554909780855755492
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Hkd8AwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Convincing Ground" pulses with love of country. In this powerful, lyrical and passionate new work Bruce Pascoe asks us to fully acknowledge our past and the way those actions continue to influence our nation today, both physically and intellectually. The book resonates with ongoing debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. Pascoe 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 stage. He has written the book for all Australians, as an antidote to the great Australian inability to deal respectfully with the nation's constructed Indigenous past. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourke, but in the furnace of Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground and Werribee. He knows we can't reverse the past, but believes we can bring in our soul from the fog of delusion. Pascoe proposes a way forward, beyond shady intellectual argument and immature nationalism, with our strengths enhanced and our weaknesses acknowledged and addressed.