ENH2690 - Gender and Authority in Australian Literature

Leader: Michael Ackland

Offered

Not offered in 2007

Synopsis

This unit is concerned with the contribution of literature to forming and interrogating national identity, and with postwar attempts to assimilate the heritage of modernism to Australian experience. Texts range from the colonial period to the present. They focus on the distant and recent historical record as a site of contention, on racial and gender relations, on attempts to rewrite the romance and pastoral traditions and on recent developments in the Australian novel. Authors studied include Bail, Carey, Garner, Jolley, Malouf, Mudrooroo and Prichard.

Assessment

Seminar presentation (1000 words) and participation: 30%
Essay (1500 words): 30%
Class test (2000 words): 40%

Contact hours

2 hour seminar per week

Prerequisites

A first-year sequence in English, Literary Studies or Cultural Studies or permission

Prohibitions

ENH3690, WMN2690, WMN3690