Orpheus Lost
Pymble
London
:
Fourth Estate
,
2007
Z1364404
2007
single work
novel
(taught in 5 units)
'In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus story, Leela May travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of her lover, Mishka.
'Leela is a mathematical genius who escaped her hardscrabble Southern home town to study in Boston. It's there that she meets a young Australian musician, Mishka. From the moment she first hears him play, busking in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers.
'Then one day Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation centre somewhere outside the city. There has been an 'incident', an explosion on the underground; terrorists are suspected, security is high. And her old childhood friend Cobb is conducting a very questionable interrogation. Over the years Cobb has never forgotten Leela and the secrets she knows.
'Now he reveals to her that Mishka may not be all he seems. That there may be more to him than growing up in the Daintree rainforest in northern Queensland in an eccentric musical family. Leela has already discovered on her own account that some nights when Mishka claims to be at the music lab are actually spent at a cafe. A cafe, Cobb tells her, known to be a terrorist contact point.
'Who can she believe?
'And then Mishka disappears.' (Publisher's blurb)
Invisible Histories
Chippendale
:
Picador
,
1989
Z411419
1989
selected work
short story
poetry
biography
(taught in 1 units)
The objectives of this course are that students become aware that the principal issues of post-colonial studies possess more depth and complexity than the versions which circulate in the media, public discourse and school textbooks.
Contents
This subject aims to examine the central topics in postcolonial studies, concentrating upon writing and film from locations which were invaded by European colonial powers. Identifying those central topics, and seeing how they apply to the texts under consideration, will form the subject’s main activities. In this subject, different relations to the experience of dislocation will be considered: from the disturbance of once-confident national projects occasioned by a growing awareness of the disruptions of history to the experience of the marginalisation of indigenous peoples.
