AJ18083 Současná australská literatura

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2010
Rozsah
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Vyučující
Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Rozvrh seminárních/paralelních skupin
AJ18083/A: St 11:40–13:15 G31, M. Horáková
AJ18083/B: St 15:00–16:35 G31, M. Horáková
Předpoklady
AJ09999 Postupová zkouška || AJ01002 Anglický jazyk II
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This course focuses on recent Australian fiction/non-fiction/film and foregrounds the diversity of themes which present Australia as increasingly contested space of diverse histories, knowledges, ethnicities and cultural practices. In several units dedicated to multicultural and immigrant writing, Aboriginal counter-narratives, portraits of mythologized landscapes, history of colonization and nation-building, students will analyze narratives that critically explore Australian identities, and challenge the myth of a homogenous, white, gendered, Anglo-Saxon settler nation. Classes include mini-lectures, film clips, primary and secondary text analyses, and group and class discussions. Students will be expected to read assigned texts, contribute to seminar discussions, write regular response papers and a final essay, incorporating key theoretical concepts framing the course and critical analyses into their work.
Osnova
  • Week 1: Introduction to course policies, assignments and readings; Defining Australia in Writing: National Identity and “Australiannes”
  • Week 2: Defining Australia in Writing: History and Place; Kate Grenville, The Secret River (2005).
  • Week 3: Aboriginal Voices: The Stolen Generations; Doris Pilkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996).
  • Week 4: Aboriginal Voices: Contemporary Urban Experience; Alf Taylor, “The Last Drop” and “Charlie” from Long Time Now (2001).
  • Week 5: Australian Myths: Bush and Outback; extracts from Robyn Davidson’s Tracks and films Walkabout (1971), Japanese Story (2003) and Film Australia’s Outback (2002).
  • Week 6: Australian Myths: Ned Kelly – Outlaw or Hero?; Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang (2001).
  • Week 7: Postcolonial Australia: Resistance and Complicity; screening of The Tracker, dir. Rolf de Heer (2002).
  • Week 8: Postcolonial Australia: Resistance and Complicity; The Tracker, dir. Rolf de Heer (2002).
  • Week 9: Gendered Australia: Women and the Bush; “Drover’s Wife” short story cycle (Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife”, Barbara Bayton’s “The Chosen Vessel”, Murray Bail’s “The Drover’s Wife”, Barbara Jefferis’ “The Drover’s Wife”, Anne Gambling’s “The Drover’s De Facto”, Mandy Sayers “The Drover’s Wife”).
  • Week 10: Gendered Australia: Women and Space/Place; Gail Jones, Sixty Lights (2004).
  • Week 11: The Other Australia: Australian-Chinese Heritage; Brian Castro, Birds of Passage (1982).
  • Week 12: The Other Australia: Writing Multiculturalism; Merlinda Bobis, “White Turtle”; Ania Walwicz, “Wogs” and “New World”;
  • Week 13: Conclusion and Evaluation of the course
Literatura
  • CAREY, Peter. True history of the Kelly gang. Pbk. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2002, 424 s. ISBN 0571209874. info
  • Text, theory, space : land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia. Edited by Kate Darian-Smith - Liz Gunner - Sarah Nuttall. London: Routledge, 1996, xii, 263 s. ISBN 0-415-12408-5. info
  • GOODWIN, K. L. The Macmillan anthology of Australian literature. Melbourne: Macmillan Company of Australia, 1990, xxii, 629. ISBN 0333501594. info
  • SCHAFFER, Kay. Women and the bush : forces of desire in the Australian cultural tradition. Repr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, xv, 229. ISBN 0521368162. info
  • CARTER, Paul. The road to Botany Bay : an essay in spatial history. 1st publ. London: Faber and Faber, 1987, xxv, 384. ISBN 0571145515. info
Výukové metody
mini-lectures and powerpoint presentations; students presentations; group and class discussions - textual analyses;
Metody hodnocení
Assignments Guidelines:
readings: read the texts, both primary and secondary, assigned for each class and be prepared to discuss them in class; response papers: 1 page critical and analytical response to assigned readings; choose a specific theme, character(s), symbol, imagery, or a formal aspect from a given text and discuss it in two or three concise paragraphs; do include a creative title suggesting your point; final essay proposal: 1 page topic proposal for your final essay; do include a title proposal and annotated bibliography of at least three relevant sources; final essay: do read final essay guidelines available on the department website; follow MLA for formal aspects; work with reliable and scholarly sources only; get acquainted with what is meant by plagiarism and avoid it as this is considered unacceptable in any form;
Evaluation: attendance and contribution to discussions: 20%; response papers: 30%; final essay proposal: 10%; final essay: 40%;
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Bibliography of Primary Texts:
Bail, Murray. “The Drover’s Wife.” The Drover's Wife and Other Stories. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. Bayton, Barbara. “The Chosen Vessel.” Bush Studies. [1902] Sydney: HarperCollins, 2001. Bobis, Merlinda. “White Turtle.” White Turtle: A Collection of Short Stories. Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1999. 27-52. Carey, Peter. True History of the Kelly Gang. London: Faber and Faber, 2001. Castro, Brian. Birds of Passage. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1982. Gambling, Anne. “The Drover’s De Facto.” Latitudes: New Writings from the North. Eds. Susan Johnson and Mary Roberts. St. Lucia: U of Queensland P, 1986. Grenville, Kate. The Secret River. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2005. Jefferis, Barbara. “The Drover’s Wife.” The Bulletin 1980. Jones, Gail. Sixty Lights. London: Vintage, 2005. Lawson, Henry. “The Drover’s Wife.” Henry Lawson’s Best Stories. Ed. Cecil Mann. Angus & Robertson. 1980. 1-8. Pilkington, Doris/ Nugi Garimara. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. U of Queensland P, 1996. Sayer, Mandy. “The Drover's Wife.” Australian Book Review (1996). 66-68. Taylor, Alf. Long Time Now. Broome: Magabala Books, 2001. Walwicz, Ania. “New World.” Poems from Displaced Persons. Eds. Kirsten Holst-Petersen and Anna Rutherford. Dangaroo Press, 1985. ---. “Wogs.” Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature. Eds. Ken Goodwin and Alan Lawson. Macmillan, 1990.
Bibliography of Secondary Texts:
Ang, Ien. “Asians in Australia: A Contradition in Terms?” Race, Colour & Identity in Australia and New Zealand. Eds. John Docker and Gerhard Fischer. Sydney: U of NSW P, 2000. 115-130. Aschcroft, Bill. “Is Australian Literature Post-Colonial?”, paper at 2005 EASA postgraduate workshop. 1-27. Brewster, Anne. “Aboriginal Life Writing and Globalisation: Doris Pilkington’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence.” Australian Humanities Review 25 (2002). www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-March-2002/brewster Burke, Peter. “History as Social Memory”. Memory: History, Culture and the Mind. Ed. Thomas Butler. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979. 97-113. Byrne, Denis. “Deep Nation: Australia’s Acquisition of an Indigenous Past”. Aboriginal History 20 (1996): 82-107. Carter, Paul. The Road to Botany Bay. London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1987. Coleman, Gordon. “A Man Hunter’s Story: Alex Riley in Retirement.” Dawn 2.5 (1953): 6-7. Gunew, Sneja. “Denaturalizing Cultural Nationalisms: Multicultural Readings of ‘Australia’”. Nation and Narration. Ed. Homi Bhabha. London: Routledge, 1990. 99-120. Hamilton, Annette. “Fear and Desire: Aborigines, Asians and the National Imaginary”. Australian Cultural History 9 (1990): 14-35. Haynes, Roslynn D. Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. Kosew, Sue. Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction. London: Routledge, 2004. Langton, Marcia. “Out From the Shadows.” Meanjin 65.1 (2006): 55-64. Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. Talkin’ Up To a White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism. St Lucia: U of Queensland P, 2000. Nettleback, Amanda. “Presenting Aboriginal Women’s Life Narratives.” New Literature Review 34 (1997): 43-56. Omundsen, Wenche. “Writing as Migration: Brian Castro, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity.” Speaking Positions: Aboriginality, Gender and Ethnicity in Australian Cultural Studies. Eds. Penny van Toorn and David English. Melbourne: Department of Humanities, Victoria University of Technology, 1995.158-165. Probyn, Fiona “An Ethics of Following and the No Road Film: Trackers, Followers and Fanatics”. Australian Humanities Review 37 (2005). http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-December-2005/Probyn.html Rowley, Sue. “Imagination, Madness and Nation in Australian Bush Mythology”. Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia. Eds. Kate Darian-Smith et al. London: Routledge, 1996. 131-144. Schaffer, Kay. Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition. Cambridge: CUP, 1988, repr. 1990. Schaffer, Kay, and Sidonie Smith. Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Films:
Film Australia’s Outback (2002); Japanese Story, dir. Sue Brooks (2003); Ned Kelly dir. Gregor Jordan (2003); Picnic at Hanging Rock, dir. Peter Weir (1975); The Tracker, dir. Rolf de Heer (2002); Walkabout, dir. Nicholas Roeg (1971);
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