This unit explores the multiple ways in which Australia has been represented through cultural narratives. It focuses on three places in Australia, including Sydney, examining the different ways in which film, literature, television, historical writing, life writing and other cultural forms have responded to, contested and made sense of the new place that settler Australia has been. It provides training in the interdisciplinary approaches of Australian Studies, exposing students to representations from many sources and periods.
Death of a River Guide
Ringwood
:
McPhee Gribble
,
1994
Z822275
1994
single work
novel
(taught in 5 units)
'Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. As the river rises his visions grow more turbulent, and in the flood of the past Aljaz discovers the soul history his country'. (Source: Trove)
