Imagining the Antipodes - Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Beilharz, Beilharz Peter
• Editore: Cambridge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.08.1997
• EAN: 9780521583558
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58355-8
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Peso: 480 g
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Australia, Anthropology, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history