Locating Australia: culture, nation, region
BTHE
Bryan Coleborne
Subject value of 2.0 (12 points) * 2 hours per week (seminar) * Second semester * Gippsland * Prerequisites: First degree with a major in English, mass communications or related discipline(s)
This subject offers a general introduction to the study of what `nation' and `region' has come to involve in contemporary cultural studies, focusing specifically on Australia as well as its links to the Asia-Pacific region. Frameworks are drawn from literary studies and studies in mass communication. The subject acquaints students with differing approaches to the study of the nation, which includes the study of relationships between and within nations as well as between nation and region. It examines how these are shaped, mediated and contested around various media texts. Assessment options will be designed to enable students with a single undergraduate major in either English or in mass communications to pursue these orientations through the subject.
Assessment
Two essays (4500 essays): 50% each
Prescribed texts
Anderson B R Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism Verso Editions, 1991
Bhabha H K (ed.) Nation and narration Routledge, 1990
Broinowski A The yellow lady: Australian impressions of Asia OUP, 1992
Magarey S, Rowley S and Sheridan S (eds) Debutante nation: Feminism contests in the 1890s, Allen and Unwin, 1993
White R Inventing Australia: Images and identity 1688-1980 Allen and Unwin, 1981