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Making It National

By Turner , Graeme

Book information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
1994
ISBN
1863737227, 9781742696713
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2291104 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Making it National argues that we need to rethink the way national identity is constructed in Australia today. Graeme Turner takes a series of recent instances - the mythologising of Bond and the larrikin entrepreneurs, the Spycatcher trials, Maralinga and the Bicentenary - showing how popular images of national identity are used to serve specific rather than national interests.'Graeme Turner's writing has a remarkable power to engage its readers with all the immediacy, vividness and drama of our very best journalism, while putting cultural theory to work in new and creative ways.' - Meaghan Morris'Making it National could be to the 1990s what Richard White's Inventing Australia was to the 1980s.' - Tony Bennett, Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Griffith University

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