Making It National
Author | : Graeme Turner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020-07-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781000256871 |
ISBN-13 | : 1000256871 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Download or read book Making It National written by Graeme Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making it National argues that we need to rethink the way national identity is constructed in Australia today. Graeme Turner takes a series of recent instances - the mythologising of Bond and the larrikin entrepreneurs, the Spycatcher trials, Maralinga and the Bicentenary - showing how popular images of national identity are used to serve specific rather than national interests. 'Graeme Turner's writing has a remarkable power to engage its readers with all the immediacy, vividness and drama of our very best journalism, while putting cultural theory to work in new and creative ways.' - Meaghan Morris 'Making it National could be to the 1990s what Richard White's Inventing Australia was to the 1980s.' - Tony Bennett, Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Griffith University