Virtual Republic Australia's Culture Wars of the 1990s

In this book, the author, one of Australia's foremost cultural commentators, looks at the contested issues of gender, race, culture, and the media and contends that people's [more]

In this book, the author, one of Australia's foremost cultural commentators, looks at the contested issues of gender, race, culture, and the media and contends that people's sense of national identity no longer resides in the past but is continually being reinvented; in a survey of Australian cultural life in the 1990s, the author asks if various fronts in the culture wars, in literature, higher education, and the media. are connected to each other and to a wider question of what it means to talk about a possible Australian republic (pictorial cover, pages slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)[less]