AustLit
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ENGL3100: Australian Literature examines what writing and the literary mean in Australia today; and how current Australian writing relates and contributes to contemporary debates, both national and international. Students examine critical responses to recent Australian writing, including literary commentary, the reviewing reception of Australian literary texts and authors, and critical discussion and interpretation. The relationship of contemporary texts and critical practice to Australian literary and cultural history is discussed.
The course is designed to develop skills in researching, understanding, and participating in debates about literature. The intensive study of four texts aims to equip students with ways of understanding and evaluating contemporary Australian writing, and the critical debates it prompts. The texts studies are Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance, Tony Birch's Common People, Maxine Beneba Clarke's The Hate Race, Omar Musa's Here Come the Dogs, Tim Winton's Island Home, and James Bradley's Clade.
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Cover image courtesy of publisher.See full AustLit entryBig-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In playful, musical prose, the book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers.
'The novel's hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy. Clever, resourceful and eager to please, Bobby befriends the new arrivals, joining them hunting whales, tilling the land, exploring the hinterland and establishing the fledgling colony.
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Jeanine Leane
photograph courtesy of Anne Kilner
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Kaartdijin Noongar Website
https://www.noongarculture.org.au/
"On Kaartdijin Noongar you can find many of our stories, which tell of our survival, as well as cultural and heritage information, photographs, film and documents. Kaartdijin has been developed at the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, which has possibly the largest collection of Noongar specific knowledge and information brought together in one place."
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https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/8408069
Many of AustLit's research projects are accompanied by exhibitions or information trails.
These might be collections of videos or they might be collated lists of specific types of works. They might include images from old newspapers or videos. They might be a list of recommended secondary sources.
What they have in common is that, as the name suggests, they are curated: AustLit researchers have collected material together in a single location in order to highlight a specific aspect of Australian print culture.
To explore the exhibitions and trails, click on one of the tiles below to see further information and direct links.
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