Bob Hodge

Myths of oz taps into the current obsession with Australian popular culture. Its success is guaranteed by its appearance at the start of Australia’s Bicentennial celebrations in which we have been invited to wallow in our national identity. As the celebrations shape up as a joke at our expense in both senses of the word, the unfolding non-event echoes a theme developed in Myths of Oz that:

This book is a collection of papers from the first Aboriginal Writer’s Conference, held at Murdoch University in February 1983. Despite the long (unexplained) lapse between the conference and the appearance of this book, the papers raise a number of urgent and complex problems, for writers and commentators.