Australian identity
Articles
- Good Readers and Good Citizens : Literature, Media and the Nation
In recent decades nationalism has sometimes been classed in the same category of immoral behaviours as racism and sexism. Reading from the historical and literary…
1 October 1999 - Is Geoffry Hamlyn a Creole Novel?
Discusses the perception of a division in Australian society between those who followed the English model and pattern and those who adopted differing manners of…
1 May 1974 - The Dark Side of the Dreaming: Aboriginality and Australian Culture
There is clearly a new upsurge of comment on and interest in Aboriginal Australian culture, an interest manifested by the reissue of a number of…
1 October 1992 - Walter Murdoch : ‘A Humble Protest’?
WALTER Murdoch, Professor of English at the University of Western Australia for thirty years and once Australia's best known essayist, has been typecast as a…
1 October 1993 - English Heritage and Australian Culture: The Church and Literature of England in ‘Oscar and Lucinda’
In an interview on Canadian Radio, Peter Carey talked about a church from his home town in Australia that he had wanted to save -…
1 October 1995 - Australian Literature : Points for Departure
In the conclusion to her germinal study of sex, race and nation in Australian women's writing, Along the Faultlines (1995), Susan Sheridan questions the prevalent…
1 October 1999 - ‘The Great Australian Emptiness’ Revisited: Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance
If, as Dean MacCannell argues, tourism is the quest for a 'reality' and an 'authenticity' that are thought to be always 'elsewhere' (160), then it…
1 May 1991 - On Not Being Australian : Mudrooroo and Demidenko
THERE are two parts to this title. That which comes after the colon is an obvious reference for an Australian collection such as this, both…
1 October 2004 - Society and Nature in Such is Life
Kiernan questions whether Such is Life reflects the “spirit of the nineties” and whether the ideas that Tom Collins expresses in his digressions are simply…
1 December 1963 - Neither Here Nor There: Suburban Voices in Australian Poetry
In a 1996 interview Chris Wallace-Crabbe observed: 'There was a stage when those of us who wrote about the scorned suburbs were looked down on…
1 November 1998 - Rereading David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter : The Great War, Aboriginal Dispossession, and the Politics of Remembering
The author’s account of Fly Away Peter is intended ‘to raise the question of the relation between Malouf’s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War…
1 May 2009 - ‘Isn’t there a poem about this, Mr de Mille?’ : On Quotation, Camp and Colonial Distancing
There is something queer about quotation, and something creepy too. To quote is to deconstruct the alleged distinction between speech spoken by me ('my' speech)…
1 November 2008 - Asia, Europe and Australian Identity: The Novels of Christopher Koch
Like Patrick White and Randolph Stow. Christopher Koch explores in his fiction the post-colonial Australian identity, not in an exclusively political sense, but rather in…
1 May 1982 - Origin, Identity and the Body in David Malouf’s Fiction
The Conversations at Curlow Creek is David Malouf's eighth substantial work of fiction, and his most recent. Only two of these eight works, notably Harland's…
1 May 1999 - Un-Australian Activities?: Mary Gilmore’s Version from the Spanish
Somewhere around 1915-18, Mary Gilmore worked on assembling a collection of poems translated from, or based on, Spanish originals. The Mitchell Library hold two typescript…
1 October 1997 - Nationalism before Nationhood: Overseas Horizons in Debates of the 1880s
Using a number of Australian periodicals as sources, the essay explores how the apparently conflicting notions of nationalism and internationalism, of mono-cultural self-searching and multicultural…
1 October 1990 - Towards an Aesthetics of Australian Women’s Fiction: My Brilliant Career and The Getting of Wisdom
Discusses the necessity for a theory of Australian woman's culture through which to read Australian novels authored by women. Drawing on insights from Virginia Woolf…
1 October 1983 - The Palmer Abridgement of ‘Such is Life’
In April 1936 Jonathan Cape, the London publisher, informed Vance Palmer that he had been thinking of re-issuing Joseph Furphy's Such is Life. But…
1 October 1978 - On Finding ‘Australia’: Mirages, Mythic Images, Historical Circumstances
Considers critical explorations of the Australian identity by Richard White, Ross Gibson, Robert Dixon and G.A. Wilkes as the 'second generation of the consideration of…
1 October 1986 - Country Poetry and Town Poetry: A Debate
Don Anderson and Peter Porter in conversation, debating Les Murray's critique of Porter's poem 'On First Looking into Chapman's Hesiod'. The conversation focuses on the…
1 May 1979
Contributors
- Don Anderson
- Ruth Brown
- Delys Bird
- David Carter
- Julian Croft
- Ross Chambers
- Leigh Dale
- Robert Dixon
- Alan Frost
- Gareth Griffiths
- Terry Goldie
- Brian Kiernan
- David McCooey
- Les Murray
- Peter Otto
- Peter Porter
- Jennifer Strauss
- Gerhard Stilz
- Helen Tiffin
- Andrew Taylor
- Gillian Whitlock
- David Robert Walker