Review of Images of Australia, edited by Gillian Whitlock and David Carter, Sport in Australian Drama, by Richard Fotheringham, and South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia, by Ross Gibson
Abstract
It is hard to find a way of connecting these three books other than to suggest, lamely, that their disparate subject matter and approaches reveal how wide and varied contemporary analyses of Australian culture have become. Richard Fotheringham's book on Australian drama is a scholarly and evocative study of a particular set of cultural and industrial relations within Australian popular culture; Ross Gibson's elegant and sophisticated collection of essays on a wide range of Australian textual forms is a bid to establish him as a cultural critic of international stature; and Gillian Whitlock and David Carter's textbook for the Open Learning television programs on Australian Studies offers us a map of the established agenda for Australian studies today.
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Published 1 May 1993 in Volume 16 No. 1. Subjects: Australian culture, Australian drama.
Cite as: Turner, Graeme. ‘Review of Images of Australia, edited by Gillian Whitlock and David Carter, Sport in Australian Drama, by Richard Fotheringham, and South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia, by Ross Gibson.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 1993, doi: 10.20314/als.eb7802c0b3.