Celebrating the nation : a critical study of Australia's bicentenary
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Celebrating the nation : a critical study of Australia's bicentenary
（Australian cultural studies）
Allen & Unwin, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Celebrating the Nation offers the first major critical retrospective on Australia's Bicentenary. The editors have collected a series of essays focusing on the different ways in which 1988 was celebrated. From the soccer Gold Cup to literary commissions, from Expo 88 to the Travelling Exhibition and the Stockman's Hall of Fame, it examines the cultural and ideological frameworks which shaped the discourses and rhetoric of those celebrations.The contributors also put the Australian Bicentenary of 1988 in historical and international perspective, comparing the celebrations of 1988 with earlier Australian anniversary celebrations, and with recent national celebrations in France, Canada and the United States.Drawing on the findings of a major research project organised by the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies at Griffith University, Celebrating the Nation provides a provocative and insightful analysis of the cultural and political processes through which modern nations organise and symbolise their histories and identities.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ixAcronyms xNotes on contributors xiIntroduction: national times - Tony Bennett xiii Part I A Time and a place1 State festivals, foundation myths and cultural politics in immigrant nations - John Hutchinson 32 Regular imaginings: the newspaper and the nation - Colin Mercer 263 Past history, present concerns: the bicentenary of the French Revolution - Jane Crisp 47Part II Representations and lineages4 Canons, culture and consensus: Australian literature and the Bicentenary - Pat Buckridge 695 Manning Clark's hat: public and national intellectuals - David Carter 876 The unmarking of soccer: making a brand new subject - Toby Miller 104Part III Exhibitions7 The shaping of things to come: Expo 88 - Tony Bennett 1238 Expo 88: fashions of sight and politics of site - Jennifer Craik 1429 Pioneering the past: a study of the Stockman's Hall of Fame - Robin Trotter 160
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