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Loading... The selling of the Australian mind: From first fleet to third mercedesby Stephen Thomas Knight
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Reissue of a book first published in a larger format paperback in 1990. The author, Professor of English at the University of Melbourne, presents his views on Australian society and culture, and challenges the notion of national identity. No library descriptions found. |
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A professor of English in one of Australia's tertiary educational institutions, Knight is a fine writer and a fine wit. The back cover describes his work as "brisk and pithy," and that it is. With irony, angst, and even affection, Knight tells us of the perpetual need to renovate found among young urban professionals in Sydney and Melbourne, the politics of dinner parties, Australians and their restaurants, and much more about Australian urban life. It would take more than 14 stories to expose the unique qualities of Australian culture, but Stephen Knight has contributed to my education, telling of that part of Australia that has nothing to do with sport, the beach, the Opera House or the great Outback. As important as those things are to Australian life, they simply aren't all of it