Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367717551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str.

Catriona Elder

Opis

Catriona Elder explores the origins and meanings behind the many stories we tell ourselves about what it means to be Australian', and to be un-Australian' in this introduction to Australian culture, society and history.

Recenzje

A clever work: incisive and original. At a time when Australian identities have never been more debated, Elder finds an open way through the closed doors which often restrict cultural representations of Australian-ness.'

Professor Adam Shoemaker, Dean of Arts, ANU

This is a timely and significant new analysis essential reading on issues of identity and our own anxieties about national belonging and what it means to be Australian' in a globalising world.'

Kate Darian-Smith, Professor of Australian Studies and History, University of Melbourne

Spis treści

Introduction

Part 1: Stories in the making

1 Imagining nations: Telling national tales

2 The working man is everywhere: Class and national identity

3 The invisible woman: Gender and nation

4 Populate or perish: Sexuality and nation

5 White Australia meets multiculturalism: Ethnicity and nation

6 The myth of terra nullius: Indigeneity and nation

Part 2: Ways of being Australian

7 The cultural nation: Art, cinema and music

8 The heart of the country: Place, space and land

9 The land of the long weekend: Public holidays and national events

10 Taking to the streets: National uses of public spaces

11 Backyards and barracking: The everyday in Australia

12 Australia on display: Museums, heritage and the national capital

References

Index

O autorze

Catriona Elder lectures in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney.