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Inga Clendinnen
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Author : James Boyce
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Inga Clendinnen written by James Boyce and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Social Science categories.
An internationally celebrated historian and highly original thinker, Inga Clendinnen compelled readers to re-examine accepted histories from new angles. Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia’s greatest writers and historians. This selection covers the full scope of her work, from Tiger’s Eye to Aztecs, from her Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. It is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen’s life and evolving thought. Boyce writes that Clendinnen’s ‘ability to write serious history for a general readership was unrivalled in this country ... Her writings are an enduring testament to the truth that while we might “live within the narrow moving band of time we call the present ... the secret engine of our present is our past, with its plastic memories, its malleable moralities, its wreathing dreams of desirable futures”.’ ‘With the profound moral concern of the best general reader, one of our finest historians brings the Holocaust close up and stares the Medusa down. Inga Clendinnen claims for history the same power as poetry or fiction to enter the silences and make them speak.’ —David Malouf ‘Her respect for the intelligence of her readers, her sacred sense of the moral responsibility of history, and her luminous prose won her a large and devoted public.’ —Tom Griffiths
Reading The Holocaust
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-02
Reading The Holocaust written by Inga Clendinnen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-02 with History categories.
And she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film.
Dancing With Strangers
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2005-03-24
Dancing With Strangers written by Inga Clendinnen and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-24 with Fiction categories.
In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the people who would be their new neighbours—the beach nomads of Australia. ‘These people mixed with ours,’ wrote a British observer soon after landfall, ‘and all hands danced together.’ What followed would shape relations between the peoples for the next two centuries.
Tiger S Eye
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001
Tiger S Eye written by Inga Clendinnen and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Chronic active hepatitis categories.
From the author of "Reading the Holocaust" comes a celebrated memoir that reveals how the imagination can be liberated even when the body is disabled.
Ambivalent Conquests
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-04-28
Ambivalent Conquests written by Inga Clendinnen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-28 with History categories.
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Agamemnon S Kiss
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Agamemnon S Kiss written by Inga Clendinnen and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Collections categories.
The newest selection of essays from one of Australia's finest historians and writers.Agamemnon's Kiss is a thrilling selection of essays by one of Australia's most celebrated writers.Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death. And she writes movingly about other people who have changed her own life.Many of the themes which are central to Clendinnen's work are teased out in Agamemnon's Kiss- Selected Essays, the way we think about the Holocaust and its perpetrators, and the investigative power of history.
Aztecs
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Aztecs written by Inga Clendinnen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with History categories.
Recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards.
Tiger S Eye
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2000
Tiger S Eye written by Inga Clendinnen and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A decade ago...I fell ill.'Fall' is the appropriate word; it is almost as alarming and quite as precipitous as falling in love." So begins Inga Clendinnen's beautifully written, revelatory memoir exploring the working of human memory and the construction of the self. In her early fifties, Clendinnen, Australia's award-winning historian of Mayan and Aztec history, was struck with an incurable liver disease, immobilized and forced to give up formal research and teaching. From her sickness comes a striking realization of literacy's protean possibilities: that writing can be a vital refuge from the debilitation of the body, and that the imagination can blossom as the body is enfeebled. Exiled from both society and the solace of history, and awaiting the mysterious interventions of medical science, Clendinnen begins to write: about her childhood in Australia, her parents, her neighbors, her own history. In addition to recovering half-forgotten stories -- about the town baker and his charming horse, Herbie, about the three elderly, reclusive sisters who let her into their clandestine world -- Clendinnen invents new ones to escape the confines of the hospital, with subjects ranging from the jealousies between sisters to a romantic, Kafkaesque encounter on a train. She also traces the physical, mental and moral impacts of her disease, and voices the terrifying drama of bizarre, vivid drug- and illness-induced hallucinations -- even one she had during her liver transplant. Along the way, Clendinnen begins to doubt her own memories, remembering things that she knows cannot have happened and realizing that true stories often produce a false picture of the whole. With her gifts forlanguage and observation, Clendinnen deftly explores and maps the obscure terrain that divides history from fiction and truth from memory, as she tries to uncover the relationship between her former selves and the woman she is now. An exquisite hybrid of humorous childhood recollections, masterful fictions and probing history, "Tiger's Eye" is a uniquely powerful book about how illness can challenge the self -- and how writing can help one define and realize it.
Reading The Holocaust
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2000-03-07
Reading The Holocaust written by Inga Clendinnen and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-07 with History categories.
In this searching and eloquent book, Inga Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view in an attempt to extract the comprehensible—the recognisably human—from the unthinkable.
The Cost Of Courage In Aztec Society
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Author : Inga Clendinnen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-31
The Cost Of Courage In Aztec Society written by Inga Clendinnen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-31 with History categories.
A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century.