ISBN10: 0855755490, ISBN13: 9780855755492, [publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra] Softcover Paperback. 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, beyond shady intellectual argument and immature nationalism: strengths intact; weaknesses acknowledged and addressed. Presents the ongoing debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. This title draws on the past through a critical examination of major historical works and witnesses accounts and finds uncanny parallels between the techniques and language used there to today's national political stage. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 0855755490, ISBN13: 9780855755492, [publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra] Softcover Paperback. 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, beyond shady intellectual argument and immature nationalism: strengths intact; weaknesses acknowledged and addressed. Presents the ongoing debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. This title draws on the past through a critical examination of major historical works and witnesses accounts and finds uncanny parallels between the techniques and language used there to today's national political stage. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
[Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]
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