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Australian Perspectives: Representing Place, Nation and Identity - ENGL200
This unit explores the multiple ways in which Australia has been represented through cultural narratives. Its three modules focus on one Australian city (Sydney), one state (Tasmania) and one region (Northern Australia), examining the different ways in which literature, film, historical writing, life writing and other cultural forms have responded to, contested, and made sense of the new and often paradoxical place Australia can be. This unit extends to its students the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach between Australian literary and historical studies, exposing students to representations from sources as diverse as nineteenth-century frontier narratives, Nobel Prize-winning fiction and twenty-first century Indigenous, Chinese-Australian, eco-fictive and queer perspectives.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | S2 Day - Session 2, North Ryde, Day |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Toby Davidson |
| Prerequisites: |
12cp |
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| NCCW(s): | AUST200 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of English Faculty of Arts |
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