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dc.contributor.authorLyons, Simoneen
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-12T02:52:33Z-
dc.date.available2023-04-12T02:52:33Z-
dc.date.issued2022-07-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Australian Colonial History, v.24, p. 191-192en
dc.identifier.issn1441-0370en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/54518-
dc.description.abstract<p><i>Symbols of Australia</i> is an illuminating exploration of national identity through an array of symbols. This collection of 29 essays by Australian scholars and writers begins with 'Land of symbols', a piece by the book's editors, Melissa Harper and Richard White. Harper and White explain that the book is interested in 'symbols of <i>nation</i>' as distinct from icons. Kylie Minogue is offered as an example of an Australian icon but not a symbol, in that she can apparently 'physically embody an essential Australianness' while reproductions of her image hold 'little symbolic weight' (p. 4). Some may disagree, which is perhaps indicative of a conundrum that the book tackles: how Australia's complicated past and its present diversity might be represented through symbols.</p>en
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dc.publisherUniversity of New England, School of Humanitiesen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Australian Colonial Historyen
dc.titleReview of Melissa Harper and Richard White (eds), Symbols of Australia: Imagining a Nation,Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2021, pbk, ISBN: 9781742237121, 496 + pp, $39.99en
dc.typeReviewen
local.contributor.firstnameSimoneen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailslyons8@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.publisher.placeAustraliaen
local.format.startpage191en
local.format.endpage192en
local.identifier.volume24en
local.title.subtitleImagining a Nation,Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2021, pbk, ISBN: 9781742237121, 496 + pp, $39.99en
local.contributor.lastnameLyonsen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:slyons8en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:1959.11/54518en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleReview of Melissa Harper and Richard White (eds), Symbols of Australiaen
local.output.categorydescriptionD3 Review of Single Worken
local.relation.urlhttps://search.informit.org/journal/jachen
local.search.authorLyons, Simoneen
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local.year.published2022en
local.fileurl.closedpublishedhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/50a60cd6-4fd1-4cf3-95c8-3e8aa725acccen
local.subject.for2020470208 Culture, representation and identityen
local.subject.for2020470213 Postcolonial studiesen
local.subject.for2020430302 Australian historyen
local.subject.seo2020130403 Conserving intangible cultural heritageen
local.subject.seo2020130703 Understanding Australia’s pasten
local.subject.seo2020139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classifieden
local.profile.affiliationtypeUNE Affiliationen
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