Approaching Australia: Papers from the Harvard Australian Studies Symposium (Harvard Committee on Australian Studies (HUP)) - Softcover

These papers offer several different approaches to the Australian experience, past, present, and future. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, but what they have in common is their familiarity with the USA 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 the USA.

Harold Bolitho is Professor of Japanese History at Harvard University. Chris Wallace-Crabbe is Professor Emeritus, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.