Texts

y separately published work icon The Smoking Book Lesley Stern , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1999 Z1249535 1999 selected work prose (taught in 2 units)

'The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern, in an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through interesting stories and essays that connect, expand, and contract like smoke rings floating through the air.' 'Stern writes of addictions and passionate attachments, of the body and bodily pleasure, of autobiography and cultural history. Stern has written a book, at once intensely personal and kaleidoscopically international, that weaves the intimate act of a solitary person smoking a cigarette into a broad cultural picture of desire, exchange, fulfillment, and the acts that bind people together, either in lasting ways or through ephemeral encounters.'- Book jacket.

y separately published work icon Hard Yards Melissa Lucashenko , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1999 Z509740 1999 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inner-city's harsh code there are losers and survivors, and Roo's a survivor. He's made it through adoption, through juvenile detention, through poverty. He's an athlete in training, aching towards the dream of Olympic qualification. He's even coping with being white in the turbulent Aboriginal family of his girlfriend. But when cousin Stanley dies in custody, and Roo finds his father the same week, trouble starts to catch up with him.' (Source: UQP Website: www.uqp.uq.edu.au)

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form y separately published work icon The Tracker Rolf De Heer , ( dir. Rolf De Heer ) Australia : Vertigo Productions , 2002 Z1036534 2002 single work film/TV (taught in 4 units)

'A set of mountain ranges in the outback, 1922 ... horseback country, and the Fanatic leads the two other white men, the Follower and the Philosopher, and the Tracker, in the pursuit of the Fugitive. Through massacre and murder the hunt continues, until the clear-cut notions of truth and justice are subverted and the questions become not will the Fugitive be caught, but what is black and what is white and who is leading whom?'

Source: Screen Australia.

Description

This course investigates bodies as as focus for techniques of writing. Examines filmic, literary and theoretical texts, addressing issues such as the racialisation, gendering and intercorporeality of bodies and the relationship between bodies and technology. The literary texts include fiction, life writing and fictocriticism. The theoretical texts are drawn from a range of writers. The course includes a range of creative writing exercises and workshops designed to encourage student experimentation with forms of writing in various media.

Assessment

Research Exercise - 15%

In-class Presentation - 25%

Major Assignment - 40%

Class preparation and responsiveness - 20%

Other Details

Offered in: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
Current Campus: Kensington Campus
Levels: Undergraduate
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