Thinking the Antipodes: Australian Essays by Peter Beilharz

Thinking the Antipodes: Australian Essays by Peter Beilharz

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781922235558
Author: Peter Beilharz
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Monash University Press
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320 pages

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Inscribed by author. Some slight sunning to spine.

In 1956, Bernard Smith wrote that we in Australia were migratory birds. This was to become a leading motif of his own thinking, and a significant inspiration for Australian sociologist Peter Beilharz.

Beilharz came to argue that the idea of the 'antipodes' made sense less in its geographical than its cultural form, viewed as a relation rather than a place. Australians had one foot here and one there, whichever there this was. This way of thinking with and after Bernard Smith makes up one of Beilharz's best Australian essays.

Two other streams contribute to this collection of essay. The second recovers and publicises antipodean intellectuals, from Childe to Evatt to Stretton to Jean Martin, who have often been overshadowed here by the reception given to metropolitan celebrity thinkers; and examines others, like Hughes and Carey, who have been celebrated as writers more than as interpreters of the antipodean condition.

The third stream engages with mainstream views of Australian writing and with the limits of these views. If we think in terms of cultural traffic, then the stories we tell about Australia will also be global and regional in a broader sense. Australia is the result of cultural traffic, local and global. (back cover)

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