‘I don’t like your kind of people’: Cultural Pluralism in Odo Hirsch’s Have Courage, Hazel Green
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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1195Keywords:
Have Courage, Hazel Green, Odo Hirsch, cultural pluralismAbstract
The three ways that 'Have Courage, Hazel Green' narrativises the operation and effects of racist values in the Moodey Building's community, is focused. This opens up the possibility that where Australian texts take a multicultural context for granted they may only be representing a cosmetic change to Australian identity and thus continue to be ideologically superficial.
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