Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature write by Nicholas Birns. This book was released on 2017-05-01. Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australia and New Zealand, united geographically by their location in the South Pacific and linguistically by their English-speaking inhabitants, share the strong bond of hope for cultural diversity and social equality--one often challenged by history, starting with the appropriation of land from their Indigenous peoples. This volume explores significant themes and topics in Australian and New Zealand literature. In their introduction, the editors address both the commonalities and differences between the two nations' literatures by considering literary and historical contexts and by making nuanced connections between the global and the local. Contributors share their experiences teaching literature on the iconic landscape and ecological fragility; stories and perspectives of convicts, migrants, and refugees; and Maori and Aboriginal texts, which add much to the transnational turn. This volume presents a wide array of writers--such as Patrick White, Janet Frame, Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Witi Ihimaera, Christina Stead, Allen Curnow, David Malouf, Les Murray, Nam Le, Miles Franklin, Kim Scott, and Sally Morgan--and offers pedagogical tools for teachers to consider issues that include colonial and racial violence, performance traditions, and the role of language and translation. Concluding with a list of resources, this volume serves to support new and experienced instructors alike.
Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand
Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand write by Faye H. Christenberry. This book was released on 2010-11-19. Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a research guide to the literatures of Australia and New Zealand. It contains references to many different types of resources, paying special attention to the unique challenges inherent in conducting research on the literatures of these two distinct but closely connected countries.
The Circle & the Spiral
The Circle & the Spiral - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Circle & the Spiral write by Eva Rask Knudsen. This book was released on 2021-11-01. The Circle & the Spiral available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Aboriginal and Māori literature, the circle and the spiral are the symbolic metaphors for a never-ending journey of discovery and rediscovery. The journey itself, with its indigenous perspectives and sense of orientation, is the most significant act of cultural recuperation. The present study outlines the fields of indigenous writing in Australia and New Zealand in the crucial period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s – particularly eventful years in which postcolonial theory attempted to ‘centre the margins’ and indigenous writers were keen to escape the particular centering offered in search of other positions more in tune with their creative sensibilities. Indigenous writing relinquished its narrative preference for social realism in favour of traversing old territory in new spiritual ways; roots converted into routes. Standard postcolonial readings of indigenous texts often overwrite the ‘difference’ they seek to locate because critical orthodoxy predetermines what ‘difference’ can be. Critical evaluations still tend to eclipse the ontological grounds of Aboriginal and Māori traditions and specific ways of moving through and behaving in cultural landscapes and social contexts. Hence the corrective applied in Circles and Spirals – to look for locally and culturally specific tracks and traces that lead in other directions than those catalogued by postcolonial convention. This agenda is pursued by means of searching enquiries into the historical, anthropological, political and cultural determinants of the present state of Aboriginal and Māori writing (principally fiction). Independent yet interrelated exemplary analyses of works by Keri Hulme and Patricia Grace and Mudrooroo and Sam Watson (Australia) provided the ‘thick description’ that illuminates the author’s central theses, with comparative side-glances at Witi Ihimaera, Heretaunga Pat Baker and Alan Duff (New Zealand) and Archie Weller and Sally Morgan (Australia).
Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English
Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English write by H. Faye Christenberry. This book was released on 2012-08-08. Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly colonized. This book is a research guide to postcolonial literatures in English, specifically from former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. While this volume focuses exclusively on Anglophone literatures, it does not address those from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand as they have already been covered in previous volumes in the series.
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Association for the Study of Australian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Association for the Study of Australian Literature write by Association for the Study of Australian Literature. This book was released on . Association for the Study of Australian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
