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ENGL263: Settler Culture Writing |
If home is where the heart is, what happens to the imagination and culture of people who move from one country into another and settle in it? How do settlers approach the new place and its alien plants, animals and people? How do the inhabitants of the land react to the experience of being colonised?
This unit concentrates on the reappraisal of self, place and culture at the moment of settlement as represented in a number of Australian, Canadian, and African literary texts, and in records of personal experience. It takes into account the material and cultural violence involved in this moment, as well as the sectarianism and the nostalgia for Home to which it is likely to give rise.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
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D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year
(On Campus session: 12 May) |
| Staff Contact: |
Dr Colmer |
| Prerequisites: |
ENGL120 or (ENGL130 and ENGL145)
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| Offered By: |
Department of English |
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