A Night at the Pink Poodle
Milsons Point
:
Arrow Books
,
1995
Z565230
1995
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
Ruby Moonlight
Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880
Broome
:
Magabala Books
,
2012
Z1861301
2012
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'A verse novel that centres around the impact of colonisation in mid-north South Australia around 1880. Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby’s courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.'
Source: Magabala Books.
White Bone, Barbara
Please Look After Mother, Shin
This course travels through different cultures of writing, and writing from different cultures. Focusing on contemporary literature, we will begin by examining the complex interplay between Indigenous and non-Indigenous literature and culture in Australia, before 'packing our bags' to journey across some of the most exciting and unusual literary terrains in the rest of the world. Award-winning and highly influential works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction will provide us with opportunities to study a diverse range of writing techniques, as well as a platform for critical engagement with contemporary cultures and their literatures.
