Aboriginal Australia: Mabo a question of space -- Polyphonies of the self: the challenge of Aboriginal Australia -- Thinking as feeling: Bill Neidjie's story about feeling -- Towards reconciliation? -- What is justice?: The men who loved children -- Racism -- Another religious war -- The dark mirror of Narcissus: Australian literature, the self and the land -- Patrick White: Patrick White: a tribute -- A properly appointed humanism: Australian culture and the Aborigines in Patrick White's A fringe of leaves -- To be or not to be? : the verbal history of Patrick White -- Poetry and the poetic: What will suffice: Les A. Murray's The people's otherworld -- Over the frontier: the poetry of Rosemary Dobson -- Caught in the draught: burning bush and blowing wind -- Malouf's an imaginary life -- Questions of belief: Emerging from the shadow -- Intellectual belief and freedom -- The articulation of silence: finding what has been buried alive -- The shape of stillness
Summary
In these essays, Veronica Brady tackles challenging contemporary and perennial issues facing all Australians
Analysis
Australian fiction
Australian poetry
Cultural identity
Cultural values
Intellectual life
Mabo case
Religion
Social conditions
Social justice
Notes
On cover: "On contemporary Australian culture and society"
