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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country
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'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. Convincing Ground resonates with ongoing debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. Pascoe has written Convincing Ground for all Australians, as an antidote to the great Australian inability to deal respectfully with the nation's constructed Indigenous past' (Publishers blurb)

Notes

  • Author's note: This is not a history, it's an incitement.
  • Dedication: for the Australians.
  • Comprises twenty separately titled chapters:

    One: Frank is Dead

    Two: History, How it Starts

    Three: The Lakes

    Four: Lady Macbeth's Clean Hands

    Five: the Lie of the Land

    Six: The Psychology of the Frontier

    Seven: Brave Explorers

    Eight: Lake Corangamite

    Nine: The Raised Sword

    Ten: The Great Australian Forge

    Eleven: The Great Australian Face

    Twelve: Golden Boy

    Thirteen: Don't Mention the War

    Fourteen: The Language of War

    Fifteen: The Language of Resistance

    Sixteen: Native Born

    Seventeen: True Hunter

    Eighteen: Germaine to the Problem

    Nineteen: The Whispering Land

    Twenty: Elbows on the Bar

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Aboriginal Studies Press , 2007 .
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      Extent: x, 302p., [2] leaves of platesp.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      Description: col. illus., map
      Note/s:
      • Includes three appendices: Wathaurong Language Sample and Map, Place Names of the Geelong-Ballarat Region, and Jillong Timeline.
      • Includes index.
      • Includes bibliography: p. 282-290.
      ISBN: 9780855755492 (pbk.), 0855756942
Alternative title: 了解真相, 方能去爱
Transliterated title: Liao jie zhen xiang, fang neng qu ai
Language: Chinese

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y separately published work icon Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature Adelle Sefton-Rowston , Oxford : Peter Lang , 2022 24390199 2022 multi chapter work criticism

'A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and being together began informing literature of a unique new genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing of this period. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of reconciliatory literature. The nexus between resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. Moreover, this book argues it is creative writing that is most necessary for a deeper understanding of each other and of place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Rearranging the Dead Cat Bruce Pascoe , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 2 2011; (p. 14-23)
The Unbearable (Im)Possibility of Belonging : Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth Martina Horáková , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 109-128)
This chapter explores ‘the ‘postcolonial uncertainty’ of settler belonging from the purely outsider’s perspective of someone who does not live in Australia but is nevertheless intrigued by the apparently disturbing dilemma of non-Indigenous Australians attempting to articulate a fulfilling relationship to their land.’ (p 110)
Untitled Fiona Jean Nicoll , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , June vol. 33 no. 2 2009; (p. 245-247)

— Review of Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country Bruce Pascoe , 2007 single work prose
Miners and Indigenes : Poles Apart in the Tropics and the Tundra Tony Smith , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: AQ : Australian Quarterly , January-February vol. 81 no. 1 2009; (p. 33-36)

— Review of Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country Bruce Pascoe , 2007 single work prose ; Carpentaria Alexis Wright , 2006 single work novel ; White Bird Black Bird Valdemar Robert Wake , 2008 single work novel
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 July 2007; (p. 35)

— Review of Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country Bruce Pascoe , 2007 single work prose
Book Tells of Wars of Blood Reko Rennie-Gwaybilla , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 12 September no. 409 2007; (p. 33)

— Review of Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country Bruce Pascoe , 2007 single work prose
Pascoe invites readers to take a personal journey through his lands and find out about the true history of war and resistance.
The First Poet of His People Barry Dickins , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 189 2007; (p. 88)

— Review of Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country Bruce Pascoe , 2007 single work prose
The Pointed Review Larissa Behrendt , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 29 November vol. 6 no. 143 2007; (p. 30)

— Review of Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country Bruce Pascoe , 2007 single work prose
Seeing the Forest and the Trees John Blay , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , February vol. 3 no. 1 2008; (p. 9-10)

— Review of A Million Wild Acres : 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest Eric Rolls , 1981 single work non-fiction ; Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country Bruce Pascoe , 2007 single work prose
Who the Hell Are We Martin Crotty , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 - 7 October 2007; (p. 18-19)
The Unbearable (Im)Possibility of Belonging : Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth Martina Horáková , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 109-128)
This chapter explores ‘the ‘postcolonial uncertainty’ of settler belonging from the purely outsider’s perspective of someone who does not live in Australia but is nevertheless intrigued by the apparently disturbing dilemma of non-Indigenous Australians attempting to articulate a fulfilling relationship to their land.’ (p 110)
Rearranging the Dead Cat Bruce Pascoe , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 2 2011; (p. 14-23)
y separately published work icon Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature Adelle Sefton-Rowston , Oxford : Peter Lang , 2022 24390199 2022 multi chapter work criticism

'A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and being together began informing literature of a unique new genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing of this period. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of reconciliatory literature. The nexus between resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. Moreover, this book argues it is creative writing that is most necessary for a deeper understanding of each other and of place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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