[csaa-forum] the right minority?

[langley timmy]

dear all,
can someone point me to works relating to the 'rise of
the right' (in australia). there has been much written
about the 'history wars', ie keith windschuttle's
right wing 'counter history' in his Fabrication of
aboriginal history. 
i'm more interested in other cultural discourses,
popular/literary.
works such as ghassan hage's white nation, jon
stratton's race daze (in cultural studies), and 
james jupp's from white australia to woomera (in
history) have been useful.
i'm working within literary studies, from a settler
postcolonial perspective, and am
interested/investigating why certain notions of
'anglo-celtic' identity, supported by the (political)
right or, it seems now, the popular 'mainstream', have
remained/resurfaced after all the challenges to
cultural/national identities. are, for example,
pauline hanson's ideas, as one literary critic
suggests, 'legitimate if reactionary'?
cheers,
tim langley
phd student edith cowan university perth.


	
	
		
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