Modul 11 Australian Literature
I. Australian Literature Periods Colonial Period Pastoral Literature Gold Rush Nationalism Literature WWI and WWII Australian Modern Literature Australian Contemporary Literature
II. Characteristics of Each Periods A. Colonial Period Convicts & Bush Ballads Reflecting hazardous life of the convicts and bushmen Narrative Oral songs Less stressing on the literary values
Poems Referring to English Romanticism Describing the Nature of Australia Readers : British People at UK
Prose Non Fiction Vayage Report (James Cook) Journal (Walking Tench) Dairy (Rachel Henning)
Fiction For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke Representing the life of an innocent convict
Unjustly dispossessed, exiled & brutalized Suffering of human destiny as life = a prison
B. Pastoral Literature General Characteristics Bush & Pastoral a Lotus of National Identity Describing Life in the Bush & Pastoral & Station Naib Characters : Drover, Swagman, Bush Ranger
Poems : Pastoral Ballads Galloping Rhymes “The Sick Stockrider” by : Adam Lindsay Gordon Romantized Australian Nature & Aborigines
Prose : Saga Geoffrey Hamlyn by : Henry Kingsley Capturing Sheep - raising life in 1830’s Suggesting the development of Australian economy Sheep
C.Gold - Rush Era Melodrama “The Sunny South” by George Darell Life in the mine Well - established economy of Australia Xenophobia towards the Chinese
Prose Novelists Edwards Dyson wrote : The Golden Shanty Henry Handel Richardson pseudonym Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson
Maurice Guest (1908) The Getting of Wisdom (1910) Fortunes of Richard Mahoni (1917)
D. Nationalism Period General Characteristics Heroic Figures Main Settings : Bush Masculinity Themes Prose Henry Lawson = Father of Australia Prose on Bush Life The Drover’s Wife The Loaded Dog
Poetry A. B. Banjo Petterson “The Man from Snowy River” “Clanay of the Overflow” Henry Lawson “A Song to the Republic”
E. WW I & WW II General Characteristics WW I Supporting the British Tragedy Gallipoli Patriotism & Heroism
WW II Alliance with USA Reflacting the Cruelty of War Xenophobia to the Japanese Randolph Stow wrote The Merry Go Round in the Seas (1965)
F. Australian Modern Literature Movement of Modernism on Australia Literature Female Writers Aborigine Authors Multicultural Literature Bush vs City Themes
Female Writes Miles Franklin : My Brilliant Career Barbaras Bayton : Squeaker’s Mate Majurie Barnard : The Persimmon Tree Judith Wright Glendas Adams : Dancing on Coral
Aborigine Authors Mudrorou Narogin Odgeroo Noonucal Jack Davis Sally Morgan Multicultural Literature Immigrant Literature Greek Germany Japanese
Homosexual Literature Lesbian Gay Other Minority Literature G. Australian Contemporary Literature The celebration of the minor group literature