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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. 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… More >>
Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love With Your Country
