Extract: Nation, Memory, Myth by Steve Vizard
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?
Christina Stead
Christina Stead was born in Sydney in 1902, and died there in 1983. Most of her life was spent elsewhere: in London, Paris and other places in Europe, and in the United States. Her first book, The Salzburg Tales, was published in 1934, followed by twelve more works of fiction. In The Man Who Loved Children she drew on her own childhood in Sydney. She was the recipient of the inaugural Patrick White Literary Award in 1974.
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Letty Fox
Christina Stead
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Talking into the Typewriter
Christina Stead
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A Web of Friendship
Christina Stead
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The Salzburg Tales
Christina Stead
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Seven Poor Men of Sydney
Christina Stead
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Cotters' England
Christina Stead
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House of All Nations
Christina Stead
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For Love Alone
Christina Stead
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The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
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