Dispossession, Dreams & Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies
Frenchs Forest
:
Pearson Education Australia
,
2006
Z1258484
2006
multi chapter work
criticism
(taught in 12 units)
This work introduces key topics and questions about Australia as a society, a culture and a nation. It contains a useful chapter on Australian modernities, which deals in part with literature in the early to mid 20th century.
Students will develop advanced knowledge of a range of inter-related issues such as Indigenous belonging and ownership, the racialisation of the Australian nation, multiculturalism, gender, notions of ‘Westernisation’, Urbanisation’ and ‘Globalisation’, by using classic and contemporary Australian film and literature, as well as government policy documents such as the Federal Government’s 2012 White Paper: ‘Australia in the Asian Century’, to explore how the Australian nation has been imagined. Students will explore the influence of historical, social and political concepts and events, how these have shaped and been shaped by policy, then captured, celebrated and critiqued by Australian Film and Literature.
