ABSTRACT
The subsequent and ongoing process of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, with its successes and its losses, has had far-reaching implications for ideas of nation. Similarly, the important work done by feminist and post-colonial scholars in analysing the uneasy and ever-changing relationship between Australian nationhood, nationalism and women as subjects has had a major impact on all humanities disciplines. While much of this work has been done outside the discipline of literary studies, as Leigh Dale points out, in ‘those many local works in cultural studies, history, Australian studies, sociology and geography which are so often cited by Australian literary critics as to be foundational’ (Dale 1999: 131), the number of new literary histories being written also suggests what Gillian Whitlock has described as ‘the turbulence and complexity of
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(Whitlock 1999: 161).
