TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neumann,Klaus
AU  - Thomas,Nicholas
AU  - Ericksen,Hilary
TI  - Quicksands: foundational histories in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand 
SN  - 0868406333
AV  - DU121 .Q53 1999
U1  - 993.02 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - UNSW Press
KW  - National characteristics, New Zealand
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Australia
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - National characteristics, Australian
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Colonization
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-270) and index
N2  - "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
ER  -