Approaching Australia
Subtitle: papers from the Harvard Australian Studies Symposium
By: edited by Harold Bolitho & Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
Contributors: Bolitho, Harold.; Wallace-Crabbe, Chris.
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Distributed by Harvard University Press; Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Australia -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- Congresses.; Australia -- Relations -- United States -- Congresses.; United States -- Relations -- Australia -- Congresses.; Australia -- Congresses.; United States -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: These papers, each by a notable Australian scholar, offer several approaches to the Australian experience, past, present, and future. The authors come from different disciplines, but what they have in common is their familiarity with the United States, and their experience in interpreting their homeland to an American audience.

As they discuss poetry and politics, nationalism and feminism, Aboriginal society and urbanization, they also explore a common theme: the emergence of a distinctive Australian entity, and the contribution to it - positive, negative, direct and indirect - of the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.