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Robert Drewe Robert Drewe i(A696 works by) (a.k.a. Robert Duncan Drewe)
Born: Established: 1943 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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Details of Works Taught

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 2010 Robert Drewe (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2010 Z1731494 2010 anthology essay (taught in 2 units)

'This year's Best Australian Essays offers riveting snapshots of the nation's "current loves and angers, its art and myths and amusements and gender concerns - and its propensity for bushfires."

'From Alex Miller on the creative imagination to Mark Dapin on crime myths, from Amanda Hooton on Miss Universe to Tim Flannery on the inner lives of animals, this is a collection that takes the pulse of the nation's writers and thinkers and finds them in rude health.' (From the publisher's website.)

Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Australian Literature: Inventing the Past La Trobe University 2011
y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 2010 Robert Drewe (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2010 Z1731494 2010 anthology essay (taught in 2 units)

'This year's Best Australian Essays offers riveting snapshots of the nation's "current loves and angers, its art and myths and amusements and gender concerns - and its propensity for bushfires."

'From Alex Miller on the creative imagination to Mark Dapin on crime myths, from Amanda Hooton on Miss Universe to Tim Flannery on the inner lives of animals, this is a collection that takes the pulse of the nation's writers and thinkers and finds them in rude health.' (From the publisher's website.)

Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Australian Literature: Inventing the Past La Trobe University 2012
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Our Sunshine Robert Drewe , Sydney : Picador , 1991 Z305264 1991 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 2 units) 'An imaginative recreation of the inner life of Ned Kelly, hero and devil of the Australian outback, which carries the reader into a landscape of murder, prejudice, sexuality, persecution, robbery, vanity, religion, greed, politics and corruption.' (Publication summary) Introduction to Australian Literature University of Queensland 2008 (Semester 1)
y separately published work icon Our Sunshine Robert Drewe , Sydney : Picador , 1991 Z305264 1991 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 2 units) 'An imaginative recreation of the inner life of Ned Kelly, hero and devil of the Australian outback, which carries the reader into a landscape of murder, prejudice, sexuality, persecution, robbery, vanity, religion, greed, politics and corruption.' (Publication summary) Myth of Oz: Film and Fiction University of Wollongong 2012 (Semester 2)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon The Savage Crows Robert Drewe , Sydney : Collins , 1976 Z443007 1976 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'This revelatory story of the most tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history – the 'saving' of a unique race, the Tasmanian Aborigines – is seen through the eyes of an obsessive young present-day narrator. Breathtaking and visionary in its scope, The Savage Crows breaks new fictional ground in its affecting portrayal of the collision of worlds, generations and mythologies. From suburban apathy and cynicism blossoms a wild, foolhardy and beautiful hinterland of time and space.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin 2001 ed.)

Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Australian Literature: Inventing the Past La Trobe University 2009
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