THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND POPULAR CULTURE

March 31st- April 2nd 2006

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Antipodean Cultures

Chair: Jenny Macleod

Rebecca Burns (Independent Scholar), “‘The place was quiet as a Sunday in a New Zealand village’: The Inscription of Place in the War Narratives of Robin Hyde”


Christina Spittel, Universität Freiburg, Germany
“Lest They Forget: The First World War in Recent Australian Teenage Literature”


Nathan Wise, University of New South Wales, Australia
“Questioning the ‘real’ Australian: The Mis-representation of the Soldier as the National Archetype in Australian Historical Literature”