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School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Where and how do we encounter the traveller? This course will explore the spiralling routes of travellers and their imaginings as they confront sites of contact, connection and exchange in writing Australia. In particular, this course studies contemporary travel literatures about Australia. It focuses on drifters, settlers, migrant and diasporic observers as well as refugees and global travellers. The texts and theoretical material examined in this course investigate the rifts and entanglements between peoples, places, cultures, ways of seeing, knowing and being in the world. The emphasis will be on writing that is preoccupied with contemporary postcolonial debates regarding difference, marginality, liminality and hybridity within transcultural and transnational contexts. The course facilitates creative and critical responses to this writing.
In-class Presentation and Discussion (500 words)
Learning outcomes 3
Critical Essay
Learning outcomes 1
Creative response and critical commentary
Learning outcomes 2
130 hours of total student learning time over three weeks of a summer intensive, which is made up of: 36 hours of seminar 2 hours of film screening 92 hours of independent student research, reading and writing
Murrray Bail, Eucalyptus (Melbourne: Text, 1998) Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains (Picador, 2018) Raimond Gaita, Romulus my Father (Melbourne: Text, 1998) Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)