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Lädt ... Convincing ground : learning to fall in love with your country (2007)von Bruce Pascoe
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A wide-ranging, personal and powerful work that resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory, and community. Ranging across the national contemporary political stage, this book critiques the great Australian silence when it comes to dealing respectfully with the construction of the nation?s Indigenous past. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The title of Bruce Pascoe's survey of Victoria's colonial history is also the name of a place: the Convincing Ground site in Portland Bay is on the Victorian Heritage Register as the probable first recorded site of a massacre in this state. There had been tensions between the local indigenous Gunditjmara people and whalers who had set up a station at Portland in the late 1820s, and the conflict erupted into violence over who had rights to a beached whale some time in 1833-34. Estimates vary but it is thought that between 60 and 200 Gunditjmara people were killed. The exact date is not known (and the authenticity and details of the event are contested) because there were only two young survivors and the massacre wasn't documented until a journal entry in Edward Henty's diary in 1835.
As Bruce Pascoe says: This is not a history, it's an incitement. Pascoe isn't an historian: he's a writer from the Bunurong clan, of the Kulin nation, a teacher, a farmer, and a researcher working on preserving the Wathaurong language. And the point is that while it may not ever be possible to verify the precise circumstances of this or any other massacre in neat and tidy documents, there is no doubt at all that the settlement of Victoria, as elsewhere in Australia, involved frontier violence. James Boyce, (who is an historian) makes this abundantly clear in his award-winning history 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia which I reviewed here. What Pascoe's book offers is an Indigenous point of view about these and other events, based on oral testimony as well as the documentary record:
So yes, Pascoe doesn't beat about the bush, and sometimes his tone is abrasive and his sarcasm is a bit heavy-handed. The stories about the violence are confronting to read, and these feelings are exacerbated by Pascoe's uncompromising assertions about White behaviour.
Reading this made me search my own posts to see if I had made, or quoted the same sentiment.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/07/10/convincing-ground-by-bruce-pascoe/ ( )