paper investigates the implications of shift for national identity - a construction historically and contemporaneously tied to white male identity - by exploring the manifestation of the 'man in crisis' in current political and popular debates, before moving to consider the ways in which these debates emerge and are affirmed and transformed in contemporary women ...

Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway's short story " " is a compelling and complex work of that explores themes of masculinity, violence, and identity. Through the character of Nick Adams, Hemingway delves into the psyche of a young man struggling to find his place in the world while grappling with the trauma of his past.

A that is distinctly typically has a unique narrative specifically focused on culture, history, or landscape. It often features actors and includes references to slang and colloquialisms. It also often has a strong focus on the outback and the unique flora and fauna of the country.

It is clear that nationalism in some of its guises (ethno-nationalist, assimilationist nationalist) can be inimical to multiculturalism, and the chapter explores negative relationship. The chapter also discusses ongoing debates about identity, especially between more ethno-cultural, liberal and civic national versions.

body of , both oral and written, produced in Australia.. Perhaps more so than in other countries, the Australia characteristically expresses collective values. Even when the deals with the experiences of an individual, those experiences are very likely to be estimated in terms of the ordinary, the typical, the representative.

Bruce Moore says that -ie (or -y or -o) is a suffix that add to words for informality and affection. As in 'Aussie'. What other words can you think of that end in ...

keeping with its development as a major movement in postwar Native American inauguration of Indigenous autobiographical and testimonial (particularly fiction) in the 1970s can be understood as a generational reckoning with the impacts of colonization, its regimes of assimilation and disenfranchisement, and the cross-generational trauma of loss and ...

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) at Monash University describes Australia's national identity as "complex and fractured". "I think a decade or two ago we could have said that we were the lucky country, we were the place of a fair go and I might have been able to go along with that, but from what I see now and what I have seen of ...

refuses to admit defeat in the face of great difficulties, and although the referent is usually a person, it does not have to be, as in newspaper reference to the Western ...

With these words, that open The Castle (Rob Sitch, 1997), the ideology that motivates the characters and that drives the narrative becomes immediately manifest: identity is inextricably linked to home ownership, the foundation of the " Dream". Over the course of the tow‑truck driving, working class "" Kerrigan patriarch, Darryl, defies a government ...

It was only by the 1970s that the little Aussie manifested closer to its contemporary victim-hero, ideologically mobilised by John Howard in his anti-'intellectual do-gooders' stance during the heat of the history wars during the 1990s. So while the has a long history in Australia, its close association to a ...

Popular settler post Mabo-Australia ( on the border between literary and popular) still loves to be a "good narrative". The best is who ...

article maps the from the perspective of its audience, to suggest ways in which comic but uneasy version of the working-class responded to socioeconomic change.

article maps the from the perspective of its audience, to suggest ways in which comic but uneasy version of the working-class responded to socioeconomic change.

Abstract. Abstract paper explores the ways in which the 'Aussie identity of the character Kenny Smyth in the Kenny (2006) is both visible through its hegemonic status and cultural ubiquity, and invisible as the marker of normative identity. paper examines the 'mainstream' and identities and the discourse that surrounds them, in particular ...

last decade, the white 'man in crisis' - a prominent American society - has entered the cultural conscious, and now begins to challenge the position of the 'Aussie as the dominant version of masculinity. paper investigates the implications of shift for national identity - a construction historically and ...

Kirsty Whitman. paper explores the ways in which the 'Aussie identity of the character Kenny Smyth in the Kenny (2006) is both visible through its hegemonic status and cultural ubiquity, and invisible as the marker of normative identity. paper examines the 'mainstream' and identities and ...

Abstract. article explores ways in which the low-budget mockumentary Kenny (Clayton Jacobson, 2006) evolves the , from its earlier incarnation in The Castle (Rob Sitch, 1997). A surprise hit on screens, Kenny is the quietly humorous story of a portaloo worker, one of the 'ordinary that the Howard government claimed it spoke for.

However, transferred to . screen, the Aussie myth metamorphoses into virtual fairytale, where fairytale is a. made-up story marked by luck, and or happiness. The Castle, an idiomatic and satiric portrayal of the classic Aussie his family, is one such feel-good fairytale. Darryl Kerrigan, the proud blue-collar protagonist ...

Other contemporary women's fictions, such as Fiona Capp's Last of the Sane Days and Sarah Myles's Transplanted, depict and engage with both the man in crisis and the Aussie to produce a refiguring of identity in ways that depart from the longstanding affiliation of nationhood with masculinity.

Abstract. essay examines the role of the Aussie political rhetoric. I argue that the Aussie is a rhetorical incarnation of economic struggle, in which an Opposition utilises an ambiguity akin to dog whistling to foment and direct dissatisfaction towards an incumbent Government.

Going back to the convict, the bushman and the Anzac digger, the 'Aussie is a often evoked in political, social and popular discourse in Australia to signify a hard-working (white ...

Abstract paper explores the ways in which the 'Aussie identity of the character Kenny Smyth in the Kenny (2006) is both visible through its hegemonic status and cultural ubiquity, and invisible as the marker of normative identity. paper examines the 'mainstream' and identities and the discourse that surrounds them, in particular looking ...