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?
Richard Pennell did both his BA (in Arabic and Spanish) and his PhD (in Islamic History) at the University of Leeds in Britain. Before joining the History Department at the University of Melbourne he taught at the National University of Singapore, at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, at Garyounis University in Benghazi, Libya, and at Bogazici University in Turkey. His most recent books are Morocco since 1830: A History and Morocco: From Empire to Independence. He edited Bandits at Sea: A Pirate Reader.
Pam Pryde is curator of Special Collections in the Baillieu Library at the University of Melbourne and treasurer for the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. Her interest is in book history—the book as a physical object—and articles she has written on this topic can be found in the Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand. For many years she has also been involved with the craft of hand-printing at the Ancora Press, Monash University.
Emmett Stinson is a lecturer in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne and president of SPUNC (The Small Press Network). He has also served as fiction editor for Wet Ink: The Magazine of New Writing and as book reviewer for Triple R Radio's Breakfasters program. His debut collection of short stories, Known Unknowns was published in 2010. He is a recipient of The Age Short Story Award and a Lannan Poetry Fellowship. His essays, reviews and fiction have appeared in The Age Meanjin The Monthly Overland and many others.
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?
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
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