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ENGL308: Pre-War Australia from Stage to Webpage
This unit explores questions about how literature functions into the present as Australian social memory to 1939. How does it register the making of place and identity in a newly encountered world? How was the conflicted terrain and violence of the colonial and Federation enterprises negotiated textually, especially in popular verse and on stage? How does literature conjure and defy enduring myths of Australian identity? The unit takes a fresh look at a range of writing from the beginning of European settlement though to World War Two, including colonial diaries, satirical poetry, bushranging melodramas, protest literatures and 21st Century rewritings such as Underbelly Razor, the Bunuba People’s multimedia production Jandamarra (www.jandamarra.com.au), and Nyungar writer Kim Scott’s award-winning novel That Deadman Dance.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year (Session Dates: 10 September) |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Toby Davidson |
| Prerequisites: |
6cp in ENGL units at 200 level |
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| NCCW(s): | ENGL361 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of English |
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