The Populist Imaginary in David Ireland's The Unknown Industrial Prisoner and The Chosen

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  • Ron Leslie Blaber Curtin University

Keywords:

David Ireland, populist imaginary, memory, nostalgia, identity, community

Abstract

Benedict Anderson has argued that the modern nation-state, theorised as an "imagined community," is founded on the rise of a secular media, a media that not only provides a universal form of communication but also provides the stories that provide the basis of everyday ritual and shared community.

Author Biography

  • Ron Leslie Blaber, Curtin University
    Ron Blaber is Head of Program for Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, Western Australia. His current research focuses on the emergence of what has been called post-civil society.

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The Populist Imaginary in David Ireland’s The Unknown Industrial Prisoner and The Chosen. (2006). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 5. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/10038