Images of Australia: An Introductory Reader in Australian StudiesGillian Whitlock, David Carter This introductory text for students and general readers is designed for use with the new ABC TV Open Learning program. Through a collection of 14 readings by writers and academics such as Graeme Davison and Gail Reekie it explores questions of Australian culture and identity. |
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... look at ideas about national identity , we need to ask , not whether they are true or false , but what their function is , whose creation they are , and whose interests they serve . Historians seeking to explain the origins of the ...
... look at ideas about national identity , we need to ask , not whether they are true or false , but what their function is , whose creation they are , and whose interests they serve . Historians seeking to explain the origins of the ...
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... look , all those bloody kids are running around eating this food that I bought for you . There's only one loaf of ... look someone in the eye all the time that they're talking to you is rude ; it's like you're not paying atten- tion ...
... look , all those bloody kids are running around eating this food that I bought for you . There's only one loaf of ... look someone in the eye all the time that they're talking to you is rude ; it's like you're not paying atten- tion ...
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... looks . - I wish they had more poems from women . I don't mean I like them just because they're women's poems , but ... look like butter wouldn't melt to my face . But he knew it ; he knew how the ground reaches up into you . Then there ...
... looks . - I wish they had more poems from women . I don't mean I like them just because they're women's poems , but ... look like butter wouldn't melt to my face . But he knew it ; he knew how the ground reaches up into you . Then there ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part Two White Australia Has a Black History | 59 |
Part Three A Multicultural Nation? | 101 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media, and Popular Culture Ien Ang No preview available - 2000 |