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'Inga Clendinnen believes that democratic people need true stories about their past. In this engaging essay, based on Clendinnen's 1999 Boyer Lectures, she argues for the rejection of any single, simple account of the Australian past. The reader catches the experience of individuals through fragments -- a woman being manhandled on a beach, an old man remembering the hard lessons of his boyhood in a Jesuit mission, an old woman urgently dancing the history of her country.
'What whites have done to indigenous Australians has been described as the 'locked cupboard' of Australian history. Now, "the cupboard is locked no more". This frank and challenging review of race relations in Australia helps us cast off prejudice and foregone conclusions and to look with fresh eyes. It enables us to understand better how this nation came to be what it is today.' (Publisher's blurb)
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In Search of Truth
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 30 March 2008; (p. 21)
— Review of True Stories : History, Politics, Aboriginality 1999 single work essay -
Pick of the Week
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 March 2008; (p. 31)
— Review of True Stories : History, Politics, Aboriginality 1999 single work essay -
The Next Mission
2008
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Age , 16 February 2008; (p. 14-15) Clendinnen reflects on the recent history of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations in Australia, particularly in the period since 1999 when she delivered the Boyer Lectures in a series titled True Stories. Clendinnen hopes that these '"true stories" ... will serve as a marker along our shared way'. -
Becoming Migloo
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Ideas Market : An Alternative Take on Australia's Intellectual Life 2004; (p. 236-258)
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Pick of the Week
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 March 2008; (p. 31)
— Review of True Stories : History, Politics, Aboriginality 1999 single work essay -
In Search of Truth
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 30 March 2008; (p. 21)
— Review of True Stories : History, Politics, Aboriginality 1999 single work essay -
The Next Mission
2008
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Age , 16 February 2008; (p. 14-15) Clendinnen reflects on the recent history of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations in Australia, particularly in the period since 1999 when she delivered the Boyer Lectures in a series titled True Stories. Clendinnen hopes that these '"true stories" ... will serve as a marker along our shared way'. -
Becoming Migloo
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Ideas Market : An Alternative Take on Australia's Intellectual Life 2004; (p. 236-258)