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Bruce Pascoe

    L'écriture de Bruce Pascoe explore en profondeur l'histoire et la culture de l'Australie, en se concentrant particulièrement sur la découverte des récits souvent négligés de ses peuples autochtones. Son œuvre met en lumière les sociétés complexes et les pratiques sophistiquées de gestion des terres qui ont existé en Australie pendant des millénaires, remettant en question les récits historiques conventionnels. Par ses contributions littéraires, Pascoe cherche à promouvoir une compréhension et un respect plus profonds des traditions et des systèmes de connaissances des autochtones australiens. Son écriture agit comme un pont vital, reliant le passé et le présent et offrant une perspective plus nuancée sur l'identité australienne.

    The Little Red Yellow Black Book
    Night Animals
    Dark Emu
    • Dark Emu

      • 240pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it in houses, sheds, or secure vessels; and creating elaborate cemeteries and manipulating the landscape. All of these behaviors were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which turns out have been a convenient lie that worked to justify dispossession. Using compelling evidence from the records and diaries of early Australian explorers and colonists, he reveals that Aboriginal systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required -- for the benefit of all Australians. Dark Emu, a bestseller in Australia, won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer's Prize in the 2016 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

      Dark Emu2018
      4,2
    • The Little Red Yellow Black Book

      An Introduction to Indigenous Australia

      • 139pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      An in-depth introduction to Australia’s rich, indigenous culture, this pocket-sized guide is an invaluable resource for learning about the 60,000-year-old history of the country. Containing everything from history and rarely seen photographs to information on traveling respectfully, the content is written by indigenous people and follows their cultural protocols and ethics. Presented in a nonchronological approach, the guide is ultimately less a mere reference and more a story of identity and continuity.

      The Little Red Yellow Black Book2008
      4,1
    • Anthology of short stories ; includes "Black velvet night" (pp.9-12)

      Night Animals1986
      4,0