Australian culture

Parses the difference between nationalism and the nation. 'To show the oppressive, homogenising and frankly racist operations of nationalism—to suggest why historically and as a…

Australians have been criticized and cautioned by foreigners— mainly Americans—for their disregard of their formal literature It is time now for you to be criticized…

Stead discusses her career, relationship to Australia and approach to writing among other topics.

It is more than sixty years since Morris's Austral English was published, yet this, deficient in many respects and dated as it is, remains the…

Discusses the perception of a division in Australian society between those who followed the English model and pattern and those who adopted differing manners of…

In a recent study of convict jargon in this journal emphasis is placed on the use of convict terms outside convict circles, particularly in the…

There were some who were saying Ned was dead. But now a Ned Kelly renaissance is in full flower. The experts are writing about him…

How, then, should we view the recent historiography of our imaginative evolution—as we have to date, as a valid description of what has occurred Or,…

Interest shown by historians and other scholars in the recording of the Australian vocabulary is welcome, particularly if they are able to indicate sources which…

There is clearly a new upsurge of comment on and interest in Aboriginal Australian culture, an interest manifested by the reissue of a number of…

WALTER Murdoch, Professor of English at the University of Western Australia for thirty years and once Australia's best known essayist, has been typecast as a…

My argument is in three parts: first, about how Oscar and Lucinda seems to be signalling the need for a move away from the Church…

Exile, expatriation, migration, travel: a rhetoric of restlessness has underpinned Australia's chimerical search for national selfhood. Torn between the need for definition and the desire…

If, as Dean MacCannell argues, tourism is the quest for a 'reality' and an 'authenticity' that are thought to be always 'elsewhere' (160), then it…

Focusing on Carey’s and Drewe’s representations of the Ned Kelly legend, the article explores the issues of memory, cultural myths and postcolonial fiction. Huggan argues…

Discusses a collection of little magazines published in the interwar period that 'show a sudden--if delayed--moment of accession to contemporary debates about modernity and the…

The article proposes a rethinking of the notion of the middle-brow in terms of the proliferation of ‘new books’ in the interwar period, through an…

On March 13 1946, Robert Close sat on a wooden bench in the Victorian Supreme Court, and listened to his novel being read aloud. Copies…

Indyk attempts to show how “the recognition of complexity and diversity is at the same time an assertion of the principles of social equality”. Because…

The successful writer within Australia is, at least from time to time, as much a product of the promotional world of celebrity as of the…