Australian studies : a survey
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Australian studies : a survey
Oxford University Press, 1989
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This series of linked interpretative essays sets out the discipline of Australian studies as an innovative means of discussing humanities and social sciences topics in terms of the study of a particular society. The main problems addressed here include the definition of "new" as opposed to "traditional" societies, and the study of Australian concepts of literature, film, television, politics and history as products of broader cultural conditions. The book discusses the concepts of "nation" and the "national", and how they apply to Australia. It also addresses the role of the Aborigines in Australian national life, along with other topical issues such as class relations and the changing status of women. Each chapter provides an introduction to contemporary discussion in its area, and supplies an indicative bibliography.
Table of Contents
- Studying Australia: Reasons and approaches
- Why Australian Studies?
- A review of approaches
- Defining Australia: a case study
- Settlement and Society
- Australia - A settler society in a changing world
- Regionalism
- Urbanisation
- Shaping cultural institutions
- Institutions of Australian literature
- Nationality and Australian literature
- Australian film and television
- Order and conflict
- Aboriginal history
- Poverty in paradise
- From women's history to a history of the sexes
- Labour, class and culture
- Political ideas and institutions: Political dependency and the institutional framework
- Political ideologies and political parties
- The role of state intervention.
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