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W.E.H. Stanner : selected writings / W.E.H. Stanner ; [introduction by Robert Manne]

W.E.H. Stanner : selected writings / W.E.H. Stanner ; [introduction by Robert Manne]
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ISBN 9781760644048
1760644048
Author Stanner, W. E. H. (William Edward Hanley), 1905-1981 (author)
Title W.E.H. Stanner : selected writings / W.E.H. Stanner ; [introduction by Robert Manne]
Publisher and/or associated date/s Wurundjeri Country ; Collingwood, VIC : La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc., 2024.
©2010
Description 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Australian thinkers
Note Includes index.
This collection first published by Black Inc. as "The dreaming & other [essays]" in 2009.
Summary Anthropologist, activist and public intellectual, W.E.H. Stanner used his words to change Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures Stanner exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined the phrase 'the great Australian silence'. And in his essay 'Durmugam' he provided an unforgettable portrait of a warrior's attempt to hold back cultural change. This selection of writings spans Stanner's career as well as the history of Australian race relations. They reveal the extraordinary scholarship, humanity and vision of one of Australia's finest essayists. Stanner's writings remain relevant in a time of reckoning with white Australia's injustices against Indigenous people and the path to reconciliation.
Subjects Australian essays -- 20th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
Australia -- Race relations
Australia -- Colonization -- History
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Manne, Robert (Robert Michael), 1947- (author of introduction, etc.)
Series Australian thinkers
Call number 2024.049
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