Making It National

<p><i>Making it National</i> argues that we need to rethink the way national identity is constructed in Australia today. Graeme Turner takes a series of recent instances - the mythologising of Bond and the larrikin entrepreneurs the Spycatcher trials Maralinga and the Bicentenary - showing how popular images of national identity are used to serve specific rather than national interests.<br><br>'Graeme Turner's writing has a remarkable power to engage its readers with all the immediacy vividness and drama of our very best journalism while putting cultural theory to work in new and creative ways.' - <i>Meaghan Morris</i><br><br>'Making it National could be to the 1990s what Richard White's Inventing Australia was to the 1980s.' - <i>Tony Bennett Institute for Cultural Policy Studies Griffith University</i></p>