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Bitter harvest : the illusion of Aboriginal agriculture in Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu / Peter O'Brien.
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9780648996101
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O'Brien, Peter
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Bitter harvest : the illusion of Aboriginal agriculture in Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu / Peter O'Brien.
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New expanded edition.
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Sydney : Quadrant Books, ©2020.
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iii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This is a comprehensive appraisal of Bruce Pascoe's book Dark emu. Pascoe postulates that, rather than being a nomadic hunter-gatherer society, Australian Aborigines were actually sedentary agriculturalists with 'skills superior to those of the white colonisers who took their land and despoiled it'. Dark emu has enjoyed extraordinary public and critical acclaim, winning Premier's literary awards in New South Wales and Victoria. Professor Marcia Langton called it 'the most important book on Australia'. Its ideas have already been taken up in school texts. But nothing in Dark emu justifies its success. Bitter harvest is a forensic but highly readable examination which reveals that Bruce Pascoe omits, distorts or mischaracterises important information to such an extent that, as purported history, Dark emu is worthless. Even worse, it promotes a divisive, victim-based agenda that pits one Australian against another. In short, it is a shameful, politically-biased work of fiction.
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Pascoe, Bruce, -- 1947-
Australian literature -- Criticism and interpretation
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities
Land use, Rural -- Australia
Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia
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