Texts

Ways of Dying!$!Mda, Zakes!$! !$!!$!
y separately published work icon Remembering Babylon David Malouf , London Milsons Point : Chatto and Windus Random House , 1993 Z452447 1993 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 48 units)

'In the mid-1840s, a thirteen-year-old boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later, when settlers reach the area, he moves back into the world of Europeans, men and women who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place, hopeful and yet terrified of what it might do to them.

Given shelter by the McIvors, the family of the children who originally made contact with him, Gemmy seems at first to be guaranteed a secure role in the settlement, but there are currents of fear and mistrust in the air. To everyone he meets - from George Abbot, the romantically aspiring young teacher, to Mr Frazer, the minister, whose days are spent with Gemmy recording the local flora; from Janet McIvor, just coming to adulthood and discovering new versions of the world, to the eccentric Governor of Queensland himself - Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge, as a force which both fascinates and repels. And Gemmy himself finds his own whiteness as unsettling in this new world as the knowledge he brings with him of the savage, the Aboriginal.' - Publisher's blurb (Chatto & Windus, 1993).

July's People!$!Gordimer, Nadine!$! !$!!$!

Description

Provides a study of contemporary fiction from cultures that have been shaped by the experience of British colonialism and its aftermath. Using texts from a range of national contexts, the emphasis is on significant and related areas such as the legacy of colonialism; 'writing back' to the Empire; postcolonial theory; the politics of speaking positions; gender and colonialism; and the politics of whiteness.

Assessment

1,500-word essay due Monday 24th August (30%)

1,500-word essay due Monday 5th October (30%)

2-hour examination (40%)

Supplementary Texts

Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth, Tiffin, Helen. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London &New York: Routledge, 2000

Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1998

Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London & New York: Routledge, 1998

McLeod, John, Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000

Other Details

Current Campus: Hobart
Levels: Undergraduate
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