Imagining the Antipodes - Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith (Hardcover, New)

Bernard Smith is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading intellectuals. Yet the recognition of his work has been partial, focused on art history and anthropology. Peter Beilharz argues that Smith's work also contains a social theory, or a way of thinking about Australian culture and identity in the world system. Smith enables us to think matters of place and cultural imperialism through the image of being not Australian so much as antipodean. Australian identities are constructed by the relationship between core and periphery, making them both European and Other at the same time. This 1997 work is a book-length analysis of Bernard Smith's work and is the result of careful and systematic research into Smith's published works and his private papers. It is both an introduction to Smith's thinking and an important interpretive argument about imperialism and the antipodes.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Peter Beilharz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-58355-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-521-58355-1
Barcode:	9780521583558

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