CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 IMAGE/SELF-IMAGE -- Methods and Models -- Marker Traits in Australian Literature -- Comments -- 3 COMING INTO THE COUNTRY -- BRISBANE -- Class, Education, and Self-Image -- TOWNSVILLE -- Sprawl, Urban and Otherwise -- "THE OASIS " -- SF and Fantasy -- CAIRNS -- Man against the Land -- MOUNT ISA -- Ideology and the Press -- "HOMESTEAD" -- Women Writers, Women Written -- ALICE SPRINGS -- Ned Kelly: The Ambivalent Hero -- PORT AUGUSTA -- Adventure Fiction -- KALGOORLIE -- Making Connections -- PERTH -- War, Masculinity, and Violence -- BROKEN HILL -- The White Man's Aborigine -- ADELAIDE -- Voss: The Ordeal in the Desert -- HOBART -- Tasmania as a Subculture -- MELBOURNE -- Modernism in Australia -- CANBERRA -- Leaders -- ARMIDALE -- Television: Copping It -- SYDNEY I -- The Question of Regionalism -- SYDNEY II -- A Quick History of Australian Film -- SURFER'S PARADISE -- Decoding the Beach -- BRISBANE -- 4 ALTERNATIVE READINGS -- The Legend of the Nineties -- Lion and Kangaroo -- National Fictions -- The Lucky Country -- 5 AFTER WORDS -- APPENDIX A: "Voice in the Wilderness": A Note on Grounds and Precedents -- APPENDIX B: Notes on Selected Australian Novels -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.