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"This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread yet often misunderstood condition -- nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national and historical as well as personal boundaries. Often seen as merely escapist, nostalgia also offers solace and self-understanding for those displaced by the larger movements of our time. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of empire, tracing the hidden connections underlying their yearnings for a common identity and a homeland, and their struggles to recover their histories. Through a series of comparative reflections upon the representation in literary and related cultural forms of memory, he shows how admitting the past into the present through nostalgia enables former colonial or diasporic subjects to gain a deeper understanding of the networks of power within which they are caught in the modern world and beyond which it may yet be possible to move. Considering authors as varied as V.S Naipaul, J.G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, W.G. Sebald, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, as well as versions of 'Bushman' song, Walder pursues the often wayward, ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented beyond, but also within, Europe, so as to identify some of those processes of communal and individual experience that constitute the present and, by implication, the future."--

In his Australia Day address in 2006, John Howard, the (then) Australian Prime Minister, called for a "root and branch renewal of the teaching of Australian History". This led, later in 2006, to a meeting in Canberra, sponsored by the Minister for Education, and held under the auspices of the Commonwealth Department of Education, of Australian Historians and a few History teachers. The purpose of this gathering was to make recommendations in response to a proposal to make Australian History compulsory in all Australian schools at some point. The summit concluded that Year Nine was a good point at which to implement such a course and a further group were deputed to draft a syllabus. That group reported late last year, just as the government changed. Now it appears that the approach favoured by the Howard Government will be abandoned. This paper analyses these events both in terms of the attempt to implement assert a socially conservative and economically neoliberal view of the world, while appearing to favour "objective narrative", and the deeper contradiction between politically driven syllabus construction and students' learning.

Boys, boys, boys : male bonds, masculine connections. Which Freddie? : constructions of masculinity in Freddie Mercury and Justin Hawkins / Sheila Whiteley ; Negotiating masculinity in an Indonesian pop song : Doel Sumbang's Ronggeng / Henry Spiller ; Moshpit menace and masculine mayhem / Jonathan Gruzelier ; To see their father's eyes : expressions of ancestry through yarrata among Yolu popular bands from Arnhem Land, Australia / Aaron Corn -- Boys don't cry : troubled/troubling masculinity. Mum's the word : men's singing and maternal law / Richard Middleton ; The sing-song of undead labor : gender nostalgia and the vocal fantasy of intimacy the new male singer/songwriter / Ian Biddle ; A walking open wound : emo rock and the crisis of masculinity in America / Sarah Williams ; Don't cry, daddy : the degeneration of Elvis Presley's musical masculinity / Freya Jarman-Ivens -- Boys will be other modes of masculinity. Queer voices and musical genders / Judith Halberstam -- (Un)justified : gestures of straight-talk in Justin Timberlake's songs / Stan Hawkins ; Not with you but of you : unbearable intimacy and Jeff Buckley's transgendered vocality / Shana Goldin-Perschbacher ; Some of us can only live in songs of love and trouble : voice, genre/gender, and sexuality in the music of Stephin Merritt / Mark Butler