Author(s): David Walker

Race and Cultural Identity

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. xi, 279pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix. Or purple cloth in jacket. Near new. Explores, through the works of four writers and their friends in Melbourne in the first 40 years of the 20th century (Vance Palmer, Frank Wilmot, Louis Esson and Frederick Sinclair), the struggle to identify what was unique and valuable in Australian life.Palmer and his associates sought to realise an Australian literary nationalism. Size: 8vo