If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common GroundDrawing upon the narratives of Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, this collection of essays explores the relationships between territories, peoples and the stories and songs that give meaning to our lives. |
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We all know something of what it feels like to be a stranger from the experience of
being elsewhere , whether we went there by ... Aboriginal people around the
world will tell you they feel like strangers in the languages they now speak , in the
...
We all know something of what it feels like to be a stranger from the experience of
being elsewhere , whether we went there by ... Aboriginal people around the
world will tell you they feel like strangers in the languages they now speak , in the
...
Page 100
They make you feel better by making you feel bad . They give you Charlie
Chaplin , making “ a grail of laughter of an empty ash can ” ( in the words of
American poet Hart Crane ) ; or Homer Simpson , whose sad - sack life makes my
son Geoff ...
They make you feel better by making you feel bad . They give you Charlie
Chaplin , making “ a grail of laughter of an empty ash can ” ( in the words of
American poet Hart Crane ) ; or Homer Simpson , whose sad - sack life makes my
son Geoff ...
Page 200
But we do seem to be suckers for it , and for the feeling of being in the grip of
overwhelming desire here below and of death hereafter . Not the real thing , of
course , but the imagined one , with its promise of a peace that passeth
understanding ...
But we do seem to be suckers for it , and for the feeling of being in the grip of
overwhelming desire here below and of death hereafter . Not the real thing , of
course , but the imagined one , with its promise of a peace that passeth
understanding ...
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| Title | If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground |
| Author | J. Edward Chamberlin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 1857548493, 9781857548495 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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