Dark Side Of The Dream: Australian Literature And The Postcolonial Mind (australian Cultural Studies)

1. Australian Literature And The Problem Of History -- Australian Literature And The History Of The Real -- Reading Texts, Reading Culture -- Fragments And Literary History -- 2. The Bastard Complex -- Aborigines And Australian Identity -- The Foundation Event -- The Genocidal Phase -- 3. Return Of The Repressed -- The Dilemma Of Romance -- The Epic Turn -- Aborigines And Film -- 4. Dark Traditions -- Reading Aboriginal Culture -- The Politics Of Mediation -- The Functions Of Myth -- 5. Aboriginal Voices -- Land As Theme -- Transformations -- Versions Of History -- Aboriginal Polyphony -- 6. Crimes And Punishments -- The Convict System -- The Spectacle Of Punishment -- The Bushranger Myth -- The Uses Of Deviancy -- 7. Reading The Country -- Negations Of The Real -- The Meaning Of Distance -- Explorer As Hero -- 8. The Australian Legend -- A Gendered Land -- A Classic Text Revisited -- The Ugly Australian -- 9. Multiculturalism And The Fragment Society -- Hidden Countries -- The Assimilationist Muse -- Forms Of Multiculturalism -- 10. Reading The Dream -- Antilanguage, Anticulture -- Happy Families -- The Paranoiac Culture. Bob Hodge And Vijay Mishra. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 235-253.