106-103 Modern Australian Writing

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Subject Description

This subject introduces students to selected examples of Australian writing from the post-war period, with an emphasis on post-sixties poetry and fiction. Some non-fictional texts may be included. It also aims to provide students with a detailed historical and cultural context for each of the texts studied. Students will be invited to consider some of the important generic and literary-historical issues in Australian writing, as well as questions of critical and cultural interest, such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, authorship, popular culture and cultural production, as they are currently taking place.

Assessment

Written work of not more than 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

Any current paperback edition of the following texts:

• P Mead & J Tranter, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry.
• P. White, A Fringe of Leaves.
• Janette Turner Hospital, The Tiger in the Tiger Pit.
• C Tsiolkas, Loaded.
• C Johnson, Long live Sandawara.
• B Castro, Birds of Passage.
• D Malouf, Remembering Babylon.
• H Garner, The First Stone.