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Details of Works Taught
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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A Child's Book of True Crime
Chloe Hooper
,
New York (City)
:
Scribner
,
2002
Z945071
2002
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted pupil, Lucien. Unnervingly, her lover's wife has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true crime novel about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress. Suspecting the adult account of Black Swan Point's murder to be wrong, Kate imagines her own version of the novel, for children, narrated by Australian animals. But has her obsession with the crime aligned her fate with that of the murdered adulteress? 'Compelled by the lives of her nine-year-old students, Kate is a misfit among their parents. And though, in scenes of escalating eroticism, Lucien's father brings her to life sexually, he does nothing to penetrate her obsession with the past. Kate is fixated on the crime of passion that occurred years earlier, less and less aware of her own reputation in the present.' (Synopsis) |
Australian Literature | Deakin University | 2012 (Semester 2) |
y
A Child's Book of True Crime
Chloe Hooper
,
New York (City)
:
Scribner
,
2002
Z945071
2002
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted pupil, Lucien. Unnervingly, her lover's wife has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true crime novel about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress. Suspecting the adult account of Black Swan Point's murder to be wrong, Kate imagines her own version of the novel, for children, narrated by Australian animals. But has her obsession with the crime aligned her fate with that of the murdered adulteress? 'Compelled by the lives of her nine-year-old students, Kate is a misfit among their parents. And though, in scenes of escalating eroticism, Lucien's father brings her to life sexually, he does nothing to penetrate her obsession with the past. Kate is fixated on the crime of passion that occurred years earlier, less and less aware of her own reputation in the present.' (Synopsis) |
Australian Literature | Deakin University | 2015 (Semester 2) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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The Tall Man
Chloe Hooper
,
2006
single work
essay
(taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: The Monthly , March 2006; The Best Australian Essays 2006 2006; (p. 111-137) Chloe Hooper examines the background and circumstances surrounding the death of the Torres Strait Islander man, Cameron Doomadgee (Moordinyi), while in police custody. |
Literary Studies: True Stories | University of Canberra | 2011 (Semester 2) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Critical Reading | James Cook University | 2015 (Semester 1) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Critical Reading | James Cook University | 2016 (Semester 1) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Introduction to Indigenous Literature | University of Melbourne | 2014 (Semester 1) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Reading Australian Writing | University of Melbourne | 2010 (Semester 1) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Writing Australia | University of Melbourne | 2014 (Semester 2) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Writing Australia | University of Melbourne | 2016 (Semester 2) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Writing Non-Fiction | University of New England | 2013 (Trimester 2) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Writing Non-fiction: Interpreting the Truth | University of New England | 2015 (Semester 2) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Indigenous Australia in Literature: Listenin' Up | University of Newcastle | 2015 (Semester 2) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Challenge | University of Notre Dame | 2014 (Semester 1) |
y
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
,
Camberwell
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2008
Z1483259
2008
single work
prose
(taught in 11 units)
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove) |
Australia and Home | University of Western Australia | 2015 (Semester 1) |