AustLit
Texts
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y The Workingman's Paradise : An Australian Labour Novel Brisbane : Edwards, Dunlop and Company Worker Board of Trustees , 1892 Z822118 1892 single work novel (taught in 3 units)
An allegorical novel written in sympathy with the shearers involved in the 1891 Shearer's Strike.
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The Jungle!$!Sinclair, Upton!$! !$!!$!
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July's People!$!Gordimer, Nadine!$! !$!Penguin!$!
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y Sugar Heaven Sydney : Modern Publishers , 1936 Z507181 1936 single work novel (taught in 3 units)
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The Golden Notebook!$!Lessing, Doris!$! !$!Panther!$!
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And They Didn't Die!$!Ngcobo, Lauretta!$!NY!$!Feminist Press!$!s
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y The Morality of Gentlemen Chippendale : Alternative Publishing Co-operative , 1984 Z381076 1984 single work novel (taught in 3 units)
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Snow!$!Pamuk, Orhan!$! !$!Faber!$!2004
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Germinal!$!Zola, Emile!$! !$!!$!
Degrees
Description
The course looks comparatively at a range of political fictions from different places and periods, at the ways in which they have been written and read, and at some of the central concerns and contradictions they might be read as expressing. Issues of representation will be addressed, as well as some of the genres and modes through which political fiction presents itself, and some of the frames within which such fictions might be read, including some Marxist, feminist, race-centred, psychoanalytic and other approaches. You will be encouraged to develop your own critical metholodolgy for reading these texts and considering how politics, political struggles and historical upheavals can be (most effectively) represented in fiction.
Assessment
Tutorial Participation
15%
First essay
35%
Second essay
50%
Other Details
Offered in:
2008, 2007
Current Campus:
St Lucia
Levels:
Undergraduate
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