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Imagining Australia

Literature and Culture in the New New World

Imagining Australia( )
Editor: Ryan, Judith
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris
Contribution by: Birch, Tony
Carter, David
Dixon, Robert
During, Simon
Frost, Lucy
Hart, Kevin
Hassan, Ihab
Henry, Brian
Huggan, Graham
Jones, Gail
Kane, Paul
Martin, Susan
Moorhouse, Frank
Morris, Meaghan
Muecke, Stephen
Taylor, Andrew
Zawacki, Andrew
ISBN:978-0-674-01573-9
Publication Date:Dec 2004
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $27.50
Book Description:

Ranging from the country's colonial beginnings to its more globally oriented present, the 19 essays present a multifaceted view of the land down under. A central theme is the relation of cultural products to nature and history. Issues explored include problems of race and gender, colonialism and postcolonialism, individual and national identity.

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Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe is an Australian poet born in Melbourne, 1934. He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University, and The University of Melbourne. He is a professor emeritus in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. He is also an essayist and a critic of the visual arts. His awards include: Centenary Medal in 2002, Doctor of Letters honoris causa 2006, and appointed a Member of the Order of Australia 2011. He won the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015. This award is presented every three years to a Victorian author 'whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature, as well as to cultural and intellectual life.

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