Telling Tennant's Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by Dean Ashenden

Telling Tennant's Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by Dean Ashenden

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781760641757
Author: Dean Ashenden
Edition: 1st Edition 2nd Printing
Publisher: Black Inc
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2023
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352 pages

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.Faint blue mark on top foredge. Interior and binding are still excellent. Large format paperback.

The tale of a town, and a nation.

Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past is still mostly intact. Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of 'relations between two racial groups within a single field of life' has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation.

In a riveting combination of memoir, reportage and political and intellectual history, Ashenden traces the strange career of the great Australian silence – from its beginnings in the first encounters of black and white, through the work of the early anthropologists, the historians and the courts in landmark cases about land rights and the Stolen Generations, to still-continuing controversy.

In a moving finale, Ashenden returns to Tennant Creek once more to meet some of his Aboriginal contemporaries for the first time and to ask how the truths of Australia’s story can best be told. (back cover)

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