Quicksands : foundational histories in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand /
edited by Klaus Neumann, Nicholas Thomas, and Hilary Ericksen.
- xxii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-270) and index.
"Why has 'national identity' preoccupied so many writers and artists on both sides of the Tasman? Why have the stories of the first settler societies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand exercised such a hold over our collective consciousness? And why is this history once again part of contemporary political and cultural debate?" "This innovative trans-Tasman collaboration explores how the founding of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have been remembered and reimagined over more than two centuries. At the dawn of a new century, when the facts of these cultural encounters are increasingly under challenge, the writers of Quicksands argue for a new 'Australasian' consciousness and imagine new ways to negotiate the quicksands of our national histories."--BOOK JACKET.
0868406333 9780868406336
2001524276
National characteristics, New Zealand--Historiography Postcolonialism--Historiography.--Australia Postcolonialism--Historiography.--New Zealand Postcolonialism National characteristics, Australian National characteristics, New Zealand
Australia--Race relations--Historiography. New Zealand--Race relations--Historiography. Australia--Colonization--Historiography. New Zealand--Colonization--Historiography. Australia--History New Zealand--History. Australia--Race relations--History New Zealand--Race relations--History Australia--Colonization--History. New Zealand--Colonization--History.