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 PeriodsA.   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)

  FictionFor 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 : SagaGeoffrey 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 LiteratureG.   Australian Contemporary Literature

   The celebration of the minor group literature