IA1010:03
Black Writers
Townsville
26 lectures, 26 hours workshops. Second semester and flexible delivery.
Staff: Ms S Moore.
Students will examine literature from Indigenous perspectives as well as from shifting Anglo-American-based definitions of what constitutes literature. There will be an historical overview of Indigenous Australian literature in the context of history and politics. Texts will be explored as the production of subjectivities and in relation to dominant discourse and ideologies from which “authorised” and canonical readings emerge. Fiction, non-fiction, drama poetry and film texts will be explored through various models of contemporary literary criticism and students will apply conventions from these, as well as their own perspectives in the appreciation and analysis of selected texts.
Learning Objectives:
- examine the forms and genres of literature written in English and the literary conventions of these forms. Understand how these constrain or enable indigenous writing in English;
- gain a sound knowledge and understanding of set texts;
- interrogate notions of ‘author’ and ‘reader’ within the context of contemporary literary criticism;
- apply knowledge of literary and filmic terms in the student’s oral and written appraisals of texts;
- explore the significance of creative practice as self-representation and in identity politics.
Assessment by short fiction or poetry essay (15%); film critique/review (20%); seminar presentation (20%); major essay novel or drama (30%); tutorials (15%).
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