The dreaming & other essays
By: W.E.H. Stanner.
Contributors: Manne, Robert.
Series: Black Inc. Agenda series
Publisher: Black Inc. Agenda
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780977594924
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs; Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations; Australia -- Race relations; Australia -- Colonization -- History
Other titles: The dreaming and other essays
Description: W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as 'The Dreaming' Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale,' regarding the fate of the Aborigines, 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. ?He was such a man,' Stanner wrote. 'I thought I would like to make the reading world see and feel him as I did.'
Notes: "With an introduction by Robert Manne"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.