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Stasiland
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
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2002
Z1001793
2002
single work
non-fiction
(taught in 5 units)
— Appears in: Reader's Digest Encounters : Real Life Reading 2006; (p. 9-174)To write this non-fiction work about life in the former East Germany, Anna Funder interviewed former Stasi officers and the people they surveilled. Described in the National Library of Australia record as 'A book of travel, history and biography that reads like a documentary novel,' Stasiland takes 'a deliberately subjective and "literary" approach' to its material with an 'emphasis on a sympathetic authorial persona as the source of the reader's perspective' (Susan Lever 'The Crimes of the Past: Anna Funder's Stasiland and Helen Garner's Joe Cinque's Consolation'. Paper delivered at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) conference 2006).
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich!$!Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr!$! !$!!$!
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold!$!Le Carre, John!$! !$!!$!
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The Quiet American!$!Greene, Graham!$! !$!!$!
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Nineteen Eighty-Four!$!Orwell, George!$! !$!!$!
Description
This unit investigates the Cold War through a representative sample of literary and cinematic works. In the course of the unit we investigate the shifting and shifty geopolitics of the postcolonial period, national and international cultures of paranoia, questions of ideology, gender, nationality, truth and love. We also explore the absurdly humorous possibilities activated by the war that may well be thawing out. The unit suggests that the imaginitive representation of the Cold War has significantly altered public perceptions of the war and government approaches to manipulating those perceptions.
Assessment
1x4000wd essay (100%)
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