Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" real' Australia waiting to be uncovered. A national identity is an invention. There is no point asking whether one version of this essential Australia is truer than another because they are all intellectual constructs, neat, tidy, comprehensible — and... "
Inventing Australia: Images and Identity, 1688-1980
by Richard White - 1981 - 216 pages
No preview available - About this book

Experiencing a Foreign Culture: Papers in English, American, and Australian ...

Werner Delanoy, Johann Köberl, Heinz Tschachler - Social Science - 1993 - 320 pages
...only some of the materials with which the images have been constructed. [...] There is no point in asking whether one version of this essential Australia...constructs, neat, tidy, comprehensible — and necessarily false.7 Just as poststructuralists reject on a very general level the notions of 'truth' and 'origin'...
Limited preview - About this book

Essay Writing Made Easy

Stephen McLaren - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 172 pages
...getting it right. There was no moment when, for the first time, Australia was seen 'as it really was' ... A national identity is an invention. There is no point...untidy social relationships, attitudes and emotions. (Richard White, Inventing Australia, Allen and Unwin, 1981, p. viii.) ANSWERS Your topic sentences...
Limited preview - About this book

Self and Nation

Stephen Reicher, Nick Hopkins - Psychology - 2001 - 260 pages
...serves contemporary interests. White makes the point clearly in his account of Australian histories: There is no 'real' Australia waiting to be uncovered....neat, tidy, comprehensible - and necessarily false . . . When we look at national identity, we need to ask, not whether they are true or false, but what...
Limited preview - About this book

The Chains of Colonial Inheritance: Searching for Identity in a Subservient ...

Adam Jamrozik - History - 2004 - 226 pages
...inherent part of the inherited value system and cultural expression. THE SEARCH FOR AUSTRALIAN IDENTITY There was no moment when, for the first time, Australia...neat, tidy, comprehensible - and necessarily false. 1 Concepts of national identity The concept of national identity, as it is now generally understood,...
Limited preview - About this book

Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse

Mark Hearn, Grant Michelson - Business & Economics - 2006 - 374 pages
...revised and contested. White has explored the values of the Australian national story and concludes: 'There is no real Australia waiting to be uncovered. A national identity is an invention' (White 1981: vii). Melleuish (1995: 7-10) has challenged White's equation of an invented national identity...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search