W. E. H. Stanner
W. E. H. Stanner
Selected Writings
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One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia Langton
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he 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.
The pieces collected here span 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 Aboriginal people and the path to reconciliation.
With an introduction by Robert Manne
'Bill Stanner was a superb essayist with a wonderful turn of phrase and ever fresh prose. He always had important things to say, which have not lost their relevance. It is wonderful that they will now be available to a new and larger audience.' -Henry Reynolds
'Stanner's essays still hold their own among this country's finest writings on matters black and white.' -Noel Pearson
W.E.H. Stanner- Selected Writings is a re-issue of The Dreaming & Other Essays by W.E.H. Stanner (2011).
Table of Contents-
Introduction- W.E.H. Stanner- The Anthropologist as Humanist by Robert Manne
Table of Contents
1. Durmugam- A Nangiomeri
2. The Dreaming
3. Caliban Discovered
4. 'The History of Indifference Thus Begins'
5. The Aborigines
6. Continuity and Change Among the Aborigines
7. The Boyer Lectures- After the Dreaming
8. The Yirrkala Land Case- Dress-Rehearsal
9. Aborigines and Australian Society
10. Aboriginal Humour
11. Concluding Thoughts from 'Aborigines in the Affluent Society'
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BOOK DETAILS
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Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781760644048
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Publisher: Black Inc.
Number of pages: 304
Width (mm): 154
Height (mm): 233
Depth (mm): 25
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