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Bruce Pascoe

    La escritura de Bruce Pascoe se adentra en la profunda historia y cultura de Australia, centrándose especialmente en desvelar las narrativas a menudo pasadas por alto de sus pueblos indígenas. Su obra ilumina las complejas sociedades y las sofisticadas prácticas de gestión de la tierra que existieron en Australia durante milenios, desafiando los relatos históricos convencionales. A través de sus contribuciones literarias, Pascoe busca fomentar una comprensión y un respeto más profundos por las tradiciones y los sistemas de conocimiento de los aborígenes australianos. Su escritura actúa como un puente vital, conectando el pasado y el presente y ofreciendo una perspectiva más matizada sobre la identidad australiana.

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

      • 240 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      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

      • 139 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      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