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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Bronwyn Carlson
Innez Haua
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
40cp at 1000 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit will examine Indigenous Australian texts to explore Indigenous peoples’ perspectives of culture and continuity. Students will be introduced to a variety of creative works, including biography, music, literature, and the growing presence of Indigenous voices in online spaces. We will consider the range of reasons Indigenous Australians write and create, from resistance to celebration, as well as the political motivations for publication. Students will also examine the impact of Indigenous creative works on national identity and understandings of Indigenous Australia. |
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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Referencing:
Referencing is an essential component of academic writing or presentation since it enables the reader to follow up the source of ideas and information presented in your work, and to examine the interpretation you place on the material discovered in your research. Reliable referencing clearly indicates where you have drawn your own conclusions from the evidence presented. Importantly, much of the material you will use is covered by copyright which means that you must acknowledge any source of information, including books, journals, newsprint, images and the internet. It is obligatory for students to reference all sources used in their written work including electronic material. Students should consult the University library website for a detailed explanation and examples of how to reference electronic material correctly Different programs use different referencing styles to reflect the needs of their discipline. It is the student’s responsibility to check which referencing style is used. APA referencing style and Harvard referencing style will be accepted in Indigenous Studies.
Late Submission Penalty:
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
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Lecture / Tutorial
Recording Available after 4:00pm Tuesday weekly.
Engagement online.
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Week One – 25th February – What is text? Interpreting and critically evaluating literature and other texts
Heiss, A., 2003. Indigenous Discourse in Heiss, A. Dhuuluu-Yala: To Talk Straight-Publishing Indigenous Literature. Aboriginal Studies Press.
Week Two – 2nd March – Auto/biography and identity
Haag, O., 2011. Indigenous Australian autobiography and the question of genre: an analysis of scholarly discourse. Acta Neophilologica, 44(1-2), p.69.
Paradies, Y.C., 2006. Beyond black and white: Essentialism, hybridity and indigeneity. Journal of Sociology, 42(4), pp.355-367.
Week Three – 9th March – Non-Fiction
Grossman, M., 1998. Out of the salon and into the streets: contextualising Australian Indigenous women’s writing. Women’s Writing, 5(2), pp. 169-192
Pascoe, B., 2014. Dark Emu Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?. Magabala Books.
Week Four – 16th March – Land and Country
Moreton-Robinson, A., 2009. Imagining the good indigenous citizen: Race war and the pathology of patriarchal white sovereignty. Cultural studies review, 15(2), p.61.
Week Five – 23rd March – Music / Musicians
Blanch, F.R., 2011. Young Nunga males at play and playing up: the look and the talk. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 32, 99–112.
Kennedy, T., 2018, Black Metal not Black-Metal: White privilege in online heavy metal spaces,
Media International Australia, 169(1), pp. 94-100.
Listen to: AB Original, Homesick, Southeast Desert Metal, Coloured Stone, Archie Roach, Yothu Yindi
Week Six – 31st March – Children’s Literature
O'Neill, A., 2011. Aboriginal Australian and Canadian First Nations children's literature. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 13(2), p.4.
Week Seven – 7th April – Reading Week [Online Activities Only]
See iLearn for details
Week Eight – 28th April – Guest Lecturer
[TBC]
Week Nine – 5th May – Guest Lecturer
[TBC]
Week Ten – 12th May – Social Media
Carlson, B.L., Jones, L.V., Harris, M., Quezada, N. and Frazer, R., 2017. Trauma, Shared Recognition and Indigenous Resistance on Social media. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 21.
Week Eleven – 19th May – Chick Lit
Mathew, I. ‘“The Pretty and the Political Didn’t Seem to Blend Well”: Anita Heiss’ Chick Lit and the Destabilisation of a Genre.’ Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 15.3 (2015): 1-11.
Heiss, A., 2006. Black poetics. Meanjin, 65(1), p.180.
Week Twelve – 28th May – Futurism
James, L., 2016. Children of Change, Not Doom: Indigenous Futurist Heroines in YA. Extrapolation, 57(1-2), pp.151-176.
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