Bruce Pascoe’s 2014 book rewrote Australian history, and continues to win awards, inspire projects and change the conversation. A new kids’ version, out in June, is the third in Guardian Australia’s series of literary highlights, The Unmissables
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In the night sky, you can see Dhinawan the emu in the glittering sprawl of the Milky Way. But clever, industrious Dhinawan isn’t made of stars; he’s subtle and elusive. Dhinawan is found in the dark space between the lights. Dhinawan embodies the quiet ingenuity of Indigenous knowledge systems: there, right before your eyes, yet requiring a different way of seeing.
Bruce Pascoe’s groundbreaking Dark Emu was first published in 2014, and has been showing us different ways of seeing the country and its “truer history”, as Pascoe puts it, ever since.
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