Celebrating the Nation: A critical study of Australia's bicentenary

by Tony Bennett

Celebrating the Nation offers the first major critical retrospective on Australia's Bicentenary. The editors have collected a series of essays focusing on the different ways in which 1988 was celebrated. From the soccer Gold Cup to literary commissions, from Expo 88 to the Travelling Exhibition and the Stockman's Hall of Fame, it examines the cultural and ideological frameworks which shaped the discourses and rhetoric of those celebrations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863732136
• ISBN13: 9781863732130
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"