The Resource Rabbit syndrome : Australia and America, Don Watson
Rabbit syndrome : Australia and America, Don Watson
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The item Rabbit syndrome : Australia and America, Don Watson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Rabbit syndrome : Australia and America, Don Watson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- In the fourth Quarterly Essay Don Watson takes an analytical look at the ways in which the Australian imagination has always been dominated by America. Why are they so much better than we are? Even when it comes to producing books like the Updike "Rabbit" sequence that tell us what we are like? Why are they also a land of executioners who have nevertheless created the least bad empire the world has seen? Can we really expect to be deputies to America? And what about our own sacred story (the progressive one) that we have sold for the sake of the Americanisation of our own society? If we can't have a friendly independent relationship with America, why don't we go the whole hog and join them? In a dark, brooding, moody essay, Don Watson plays on the paradoxes of Australia's feeling about America and offers a scathing view of an Australian culture that is asking to be engulfed by its great and powerful friend because the mental process is already so advanced. This is a brilliant meditation round a set of paradoxes that are central to our long-term anxieties and hopes
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
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- Downloadable Book
- Isbn
- 9781921825033
- Label
- Rabbit syndrome : Australia and America
- Title
- Rabbit syndrome
- Title remainder
- Australia and America
- Statement of responsibility
- Don Watson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the fourth Quarterly Essay Don Watson takes an analytical look at the ways in which the Australian imagination has always been dominated by America. Why are they so much better than we are? Even when it comes to producing books like the Updike "Rabbit" sequence that tell us what we are like? Why are they also a land of executioners who have nevertheless created the least bad empire the world has seen? Can we really expect to be deputies to America? And what about our own sacred story (the progressive one) that we have sold for the sake of the Americanisation of our own society? If we can't have a friendly independent relationship with America, why don't we go the whole hog and join them? In a dark, brooding, moody essay, Don Watson plays on the paradoxes of Australia's feeling about America and offers a scathing view of an Australian culture that is asking to be engulfed by its great and powerful friend because the mental process is already so advanced. This is a brilliant meditation round a set of paradoxes that are central to our long-term anxieties and hopes
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- Characteristic
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- 1949-
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- Watson, Don
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- International relations
- United States
- Australia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Rabbit syndrome : Australia and America, Don Watson
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- https://fe.bolindadigital.com/wldcs_bol_fo/b2i/productDetail.html?productId=BLI_023076&b2bSite=1545
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- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to registered members of City Libraries
- Isbn
- 9781921825033
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- (Sirsi) i9781921825033
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- Label
- Rabbit syndrome : Australia and America, Don Watson
- Link
- https://fe.bolindadigital.com/wldcs_bol_fo/b2i/productDetail.html?productId=BLI_023076&b2bSite=1545
- Note
- Downloadable Book
- Carrier category
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- volume
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
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- rdacarrier.
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to registered members of City Libraries
- Isbn
- 9781921825033
- Media category
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- unmediated
- computer
- Media MARC source
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- rdamedia.
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9781921825033
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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