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    y separately published work icon W. E. H. Stanner : Selected Writings W. E. H. Stanner , Melbourne : La Trobe University Press , 2024 27049298 2024 selected work essay

    'One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians

    'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia Langton

    'W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined the phrase 'the great Australian silence'. And in his essay 'Durmugam' he provided an unforgettable portrait of a warrior's attempt to hold back cultural change.

    'The pieces collected here span Stanner's career as well as the history of Australian race relations. They reveal the extraordinary scholarship, humanity and vision of one of Australia's finest essayists. Stanner's writings remain relevant in a time of reckoning with white Australia's injustices against Aboriginal people and the path to reconciliation.

    'With an introduction by Robert Manne' (Publication summary)

    Melbourne : La Trobe University Press , 2024
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