Reading Whiteness (ENGL4101 AB)
2012

Texts

Sula!$!Morrison, Toni!$! !$!!$!
Passing!$!Larsen, Nella!$! New York!$!Knopf!$!1929
y separately published work icon Sorry Gail Jones , Milsons Point : Vintage Australia , 2007 Z1380261 2007 single work novel (taught in 9 units)

'In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: in a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education.

'Emotionally adrift, Perdita becomes friends with a deaf and mute boy, Billy, and an Aboriginal girl, Mary. Perdita and Mary come to call one another sister and to share a very special bond. They are content with life in this remote corner of the globe, until a terrible event lays waste to their lives.' (Publisher's blurb)

The English Patient!$!Ondattje, Michael!$! London!$!Picador!$!2002

Description

The Honours program in English consists of a thesis written under the supervision of one, or more, members of academic staff and three seminars, selected from a range of options, that meet once a week for two hours. Students would usually do two seminar options in their first semester, and one in their second semester. Reading Whiteness is one of these options.

Assessment

One of the first semester options is assessed, in part, through participation in the English department's honours conference.

Other Details

Levels: Undergraduate - Honours
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