'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)
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
Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature
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.
Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature
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.
