Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World

by David Carter

Beginning in the last third of the twentieth century, Australian literary and cultural studies underwent a profound transformation to become an important testing ground of new ideas and theories. How do Australian cultural products project a sense of the nation today? How do Australian writers, artists, and film directors imagine the Australian heritage and configure its place in a larger world that extends beyond Australia's shores?

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674015738
• ISBN13: 9780674015739
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.5"