Cirrus@Austlit

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.