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?
Janet McCalman
Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books, Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering, all published by MUP. She co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next: Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19 in 2020. For over twenty years she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
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Vandemonians
Janet McCalman
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Struggletown
Janet McCalman
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ISBN: 9780522877182
What Happens Next?
Janet McCalman and Emma Dawson
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ISBN: 9780522877212
On the World of the Sixty-Nine Tram
Janet McCalman
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ISBN: 9780522852134
Sex and Suffering
Janet McCalman
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ISBN: 9780522849028
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