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Contents indexed selectively. National Library of Australian subjects: Aboriginal Australians - Ethnic identity; Aboriginal Australians - History.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Canberra,
Australian Capital Territory,:Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
, 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Myth, History and a Sense of Oneself, single work (p. 11-30)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Can Indigenous Contemporary Literature of Australia Sustain Itself by Becoming International?
2007
single work
criticism
'Nourishing and sustaining cultural diversity in today's constantly changing world, with all its complexities and socio-cultural peculiarities of people and their creations, and at times of an aggressive economic Anglophone globalisation of cultures and literatures, is a task of an imperative formation that needs to be cared for at many levels of the social life and organisation. In Australia, to maintain one's own culture is to be persistently aware of personal heritage and to be able to elaborate traditions. As time passes quickly and we live in a world that praises swiftness and efficiency, money and mass culture, losing the mother tongue and become estranged from our cultural environments occurs frequently. Everyday mainstream cultural reality pushes us to concentrate on our own area of work...'(From author's introduction)
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Can Indigenous Contemporary Literature of Australia Sustain Itself by Becoming International?
2007
single work
criticism
'Nourishing and sustaining cultural diversity in today's constantly changing world, with all its complexities and socio-cultural peculiarities of people and their creations, and at times of an aggressive economic Anglophone globalisation of cultures and literatures, is a task of an imperative formation that needs to be cared for at many levels of the social life and organisation. In Australia, to maintain one's own culture is to be persistently aware of personal heritage and to be able to elaborate traditions. As time passes quickly and we live in a world that praises swiftness and efficiency, money and mass culture, losing the mother tongue and become estranged from our cultural environments occurs frequently. Everyday mainstream cultural reality pushes us to concentrate on our own area of work...'(From author's introduction)
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