Australian nationalism reconsidered: Maintaining a monocultural tradition in a multicultural society

by Adi Wimmer (Editor)

1 Some Theoretical Perspectives / Making it National Uses of Nationalism in Contemporary Australia; Dances with Wolves or Strictly Ballroom? How Feminisms Negotiate with Australia's Nationalist Histories and A pas de deux about Questions of Identity and Difference; Late and Post Reappropriation and Problematization in Recent Australian Cultural Discourse; Questions of Identity in Contemporary Australia; Modest Nationalism, Mundane Diversity and Positive Models of Cultural Originality and Transfer in Australia; Exciting Fifties; 2 Nationalism and Australian Popular Culture / Global Capitalism Meets Local McDonaldization of Australia; Flying Rock Balarinji Phenomenon; Television as Mirror for National Heartbreak High and A Country Practice; A Tale of two National Identity and Television Soap Opera; Do They Mean What They Say? Nationalism and Racial Coding in Australian Personal Advertisements; 3 Responses by Writers and Poets / Wider Growing Up Different; Not Making it National; Litany; Religion, Suburbia & Semantics; A Patch of Ground; View from Mt Buggery; 4 (Not) Maintaining the National in Fiction and Autobiography / A World of Our Thea Astley and National Shadows; Madness as a Postcolonial Strategy of National Identity in Peter Carey's Illywhacker and Kate Grenville's Lilian's Story and Dark Places; History and Identity in Contemporary Australian Women's Autobiography; Australian Women's Autobiographies as Discourses of National Jill Ker Conway's The Road from Coorain and Ruby Langford's Don't Take Your Love to Town; 5 Rhetoric of Nationalism / Public Rhetoric on National Occasions; Ordinary Discourses of Race and Nation in Contemporary Australian Political Rhetoric; In Backlash Revisiting the Multicultural Literature Debate in the Wake of Pauline Hanson; Manning Clark and the Ratbag Tradition

244 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 1, 1999