Title: Dark side of the dream : Australian literature and the postcolonial mind /
Authors: Hodge, Bob; Mishra, Vijay
Publisher: Allen & Unwin,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Australian literature History and criticism; National characteristics, Australian.; Australian literature Aboriginal authors History and criticism.
Contents: 1. Australian literature and the problem of history -- Australian literature and the history of the real -- Reading texts, reading culture -- Fragments and literary history -- 2. The bastard complex -- Aborigines and Australian identity -- The foundation event -- The genocidal phase -- 3. Return of the repressed -- The dilemma of romance -- The epic turn -- Aborigines and film -- 4. Dark traditions -- Reading Aboriginal culture -- The politics of mediation -- The functions of myth -- 5. Aboriginal voices -- Land as theme -- Transformations -- Versions of history -- Aboriginal polyphony -- 6. Crimes and punishments -- The convict system -- The spectacle of punishment -- The bushranger myth -- The uses of deviancy -- 7. Reading the country -- Negations of the real -- The meaning of distance -- Explorer as hero -- 8. The Australian legend -- A gendered land -- A classic text revisited -- The ugly Australian -- 9. Multiculturalism and the fragment society -- Hidden countries -- The assimilationist muse -- Forms of multiculturalism -- 10. Reading the dream -- Antilanguage, anticulture -- Happy families -- The paranoiac culture.