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Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology.(Book review)

Publication: Journal of Australian Studies
Publication Date: 01-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology, St Lucia, API Network and UQP, 2004, pp 232, ISBN 0702234478.

Graham Seal is a prolific historian whose area of expertise is the production and transmission of 'folklore', by which he means people's 'informal, unofficial, as...

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...private ethos and expressions' transmitted through shared 'language, narratives, verse, song, customs and beliefs.' (3) Existing volumes by Seal include studies on Australian urban myths, the legend of Ned Kelly and the work of Banjo Patterson. Seal's most recent book, entitled Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology, concerns the folkloric historicisation of the Australian military experience of the Great War. The central argument in Seal's new work is the bold conceptual claim that...

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