ISBN:
9781000319361
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
394.2/6994
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- General editor's foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: national times -- Part I A Time and a place -- 1 State festivals, foundation myths and cultural politics in immigrant nations -- 2 Regular imaginings: the newspaper and the nation -- 3 Past history, present concerns: the bicentenary of the French Revolution -- Part II Representations and lineages -- 4 Canons, culture and consensus: Australian literature and the Bicentenary -- 5 Manning Clark's hat: public and national intellectuals -- 6 The unmarking of soccer: making a brand new subject -- Part III Exhibitions -- 7 The shaping of things to come: Expo 88 -- 8 Expo 88: fashions of sight and politics of site -- 9 Pioneering the past: a study of the Stockman's Hall of Fame -- 10 The great Australian journey: cultural logic and nationalism in the postmodern era -- 11 Postscript 1991-explicating openness -- Notes -- Index.
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