Harbour City Poems : Sydney in Verse, 1788-2008
Martin Langford
(editor),
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2009
Z1590539
2009
anthology
poetry
(taught in 1 units)
'From colonial origins to vibrant metropolis, Sydney has been portrayed with great liveliness and precision by its poets. This anthology's range extends from the foot of the Blue Mountains through the suburban heartlands to the harbour and the beach, incorporating numerous - and often conflicting - interpretations and images of the city. This is the first collection of Sydney-specific poems for twenty years. It includes such classics as Slessor's "Five Bells" and favourites like "Clancy of the Overflow" as well as a generous selection of very contemporary work and older verse tracing back to the town's verse.' (Publisher's blurb)
Nice Coloured Girls
( dir. Tracey Moffatt
)
Canberra
:
Women's Film Fund of the Australian Film Commission
Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission
,
1987
Z1462203
1987
single work
film/TV
(taught in 9 units)
An experimental narrative which departs from realist conventions by suggesting connections and differences in the relationship between Aboriginal women and European men in the early years of settlement and in contemporary Sydney, Nice Coloured Girls is also 'a ground-breaking film stylistically and thematically. The audience is left to question history, in particular the reliability of primary sources. The absence of the Aboriginal point of view in Australia's "history" becomes glaringly obvious as we are left to question the nature of traditional representations of Aborigines. As Australians, Aboriginal people have been marginalized and stereotyped but Moffatt who is a young, contemporary Aboriginal Australian offers an Aboriginal perspective through her work and questions dominant representations which have excluded Aborigines (or offered unrealistic images of them)' (French, 'An Analysis of Nice Coloured Girls', q.v.).
The module is an advanced creative writing course. Students are encouraged to carry out original research on Sydney as a locality. Lectures will deliver examples of literary and cultural studies of Sydney, the theory and practice of object-oriented writing, theories of topographic writing as a branch of nature writing, and understandings of ecological or non-human-centred writing.•
Research Methodology Plan - 30%
Final written assignment - 60%
