Literature, Struggle & Revolution (ENGL2620)
Semester 1 / 2009

Texts

y separately published work icon The Workingman's Paradise : An Australian Labour Novel John Miller , 1892 single work novel (taught in 3 units)

An allegorical novel written in sympathy with the shearers involved in the 1891 Shearer's Strike.

The Jungle!$!Sinclair, Upton!$! !$!!$!
July's People!$!Gordimer, Nadine!$! !$!Penguin!$!
y separately published work icon Sugar Heaven Jean Devanny , Sydney : Modern Publishers , 1936 Z507181 1936 single work novel (taught in 3 units)
The Golden Notebook!$!Lessing, Doris!$! !$!Panther!$!
And They Didn't Die!$!Ngcobo, Lauretta!$!NY!$!Feminist Press!$!
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y separately published work icon The Morality of Gentlemen Amanda Lohrey , Chippendale : Alternative Publishing Co-operative , 1984 Z381076 1984 single work novel (taught in 3 units)
Snow!$!Pamuk, Orhan!$! !$!Faber!$!2004
Germinal!$!Zola, Emile!$! !$!!$!

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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