Blonde Roots
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The Hunger Games
Not that Kind of Girl
The Fault in Our Stars
The Arrival
Shaun Tan
(illustrator),
South Melbourne
:
Lothian
,
2006
Z1285263
2006
single work
graphic novel
children's
(taught in 16 units)
"The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope." (Source: Shaun Tan website)
Twenty-first Century Literatures examines a selection of best-selling, critically acclaimed and/or notorioustwenty-firstcenturyfictionsandnon-fictions.We’llfollowthecommercial andcritical circulation of these texts. We’ll explore some of the cultural and institutional contexts that shape contemporaryliterature.Wewillconsiderthesetextsthroughavariety ofcriticalperspectives including: gender, sexuality, race, class, and authorship.
