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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
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Author's note: This is not a history, it's an incitement.
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Dedication: for the Australians.
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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
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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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.
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Rearranging the Dead Cat
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
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
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 2007 single work prose -
Miners and Indigenes : Poles Apart in the Tropics and the Tundra
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 2007 single work prose ; Carpentaria 2006 single work novel ; White Bird Black Bird 2008 single work novel
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In Short : Nonfiction
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 2007 single work prose -
Book Tells of Wars of Blood
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 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
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 2007 single work prose -
The Pointed Review
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 2007 single work prose -
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
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 1981 single work non-fiction ; Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country 2007 single work prose -
Who the Hell Are We
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
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
2011
single work
essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 2 2011; (p. 14-23) -
y
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.
Awards
- Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria,
- Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
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