Nationalism

Parses the difference between nationalism and the nation. 'To show the oppressive, homogenising and frankly racist operations of nationalism—to suggest why historically and as a…

Discusses Australian literary responses to the Boer War. including Banjo Paterson's dispatches from the Front and J.H. Abbott's first-hand account as a soldier reflect and…

It is proposed to restrict comment here to Baylebridge's 'Nationalism' as delineated principally in the sections, 'National Notes' and 'Political Verse' of This Vital Flesh…

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…

In his Introduction to Shadows from Wire Geoff Page remarks that 'rarely since the 1914-18 war ended has Australian interest in it been higher' and…

Since the finding of the Australian High Court in what has come to be known as the Mabo decision of January 1992, the phrase Terra…

Argues that Deniehy, whose concern was to foster the development of a national literature, can be claimed to have been one of the best literary…

'This article locates the Jindyworobak movement in relation to late global modernism and reads the Jindyworobaks as what I term "provincial modernists". While the Jindyworobak…

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…

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…

The concept of Australian literary studies is becoming increasingly the object of critical debate as exemplified, for instance, by the forum in the previous issue…

Ada Cambridge's description of 'The Chase', the imposing Norfolk seat of the Desailly family, in her 1897 novella 'At Midnight', captures in a single architectural…

Discusses David Malouf's Harland's Half Acre (1984), Thomas Keneally's A Family Madness (1985) and Rodney Hall's Captivity Captive (1988), arguing that 'All three insist, in…

For an outsider who began to familiarise himself with the literature from Australia and the concomitant critical debate on its history, its nature and status…