abs2rab reading aboriginality
READING ABORIGINALITY FROM FRONTIER TO TODAY
ABS2RAB
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In this subject students will be given the opportunity to engage critically with writing about Australian Aboriginal experience of colonization from the frontier to today. Through the works of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal writers of letters, pamphlets, life writing, fiction, poetry and drama students discover the diversity of interpretations of Aboriginal cultures and historical experience. Key themes of concern including identity, place, voice and culture will be explored through historical and literary analysis, including the study of changing national contexts which Aboriginal people experienced as the regimes of the protection, assimilation and self-determination eras.
FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorJennifer Jones
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 2 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites ABS1IIA or completion of either a first year History or English subject
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjectsN/A
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
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Readings | Coonardoo | Prescribed | Pritchard, Katherine Susannah | N/A |
Readings | Is that you, Ruthie? | Prescribed | Heggarty, Ruth | N/A |
Readings | My Place | Prescribed | Morgan, Sally | N/A |
Readings | Sorry | Prescribed | Jones, Gail | N/A |
Readings | That Dead Man Dance | Prescribed | Scott, Kim | N/A |
Readings | We of the Never Never | Prescribed | Gunn, Jeanie | N/A |
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