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Writing Across Cultures (2106LHS)
Semester 2 / 2016

Texts

y separately published work icon A Night at the Pink Poodle Matthew Condon , Milsons Point : Arrow Books , 1995 Z565230 1995 single work novel (taught in 8 units)
y separately published work icon Ruby Moonlight Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880 Ali Cobby Eckermann , Broome : Magabala Books , 2012 Z1861301 2012 single work novel (taught in 2 units)

'A verse novel that centres around the impact of colonisation in mid-north South Australia around 1880. Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby’s courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.'

Source: Magabala Books.

White Bone, Barbara

Please Look After Mother, Shin

Description

This course travels through different cultures of writing, and writing from different cultures. Focusing on contemporary literature, we will begin by examining the complex interplay between Indigenous and non-Indigenous literature and culture in Australia, before 'packing our bags' to journey across some of the most exciting and unusual literary terrains in the rest of the world. Award-winning and highly influential works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction will provide us with opportunities to study a diverse range of writing techniques, as well as a platform for critical engagement with contemporary cultures and their literatures.

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