Coonardoo Research Paper

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In a post-national globalised world, what does or what can the term Australian literature mean? Answer your question with reference to at least 3 compulsary book-length texts and ‘North Wind’ by John Morrison. Australian literature is important towards a post-national and globalised world. Post-colonial Australian literary has provided various conducts moving from literary criticism to textual politics. The novels Barracuda, Unpolished Gem, Coonardo and North Wind all relate to Australian literature. Post-colonial texts have mostly focused on the around the literary canon. Barracuda was a modern piece of writing. Tsiolkas indicates thoughts towards the Australian mainstream. ‘He is more advanced than other writers writing in Australia towards …show more content…

Pichard based the novel ‘Coonardoo’ on her very own personal experiences of living in the bush, as she stated in the foreword, and the novel was set in Western Australia’s North West. ‘The novel had raised problems based on black and white history’. (Harper Collins Australia 2012). Prichard was typically seen in Australian literary history, where she grounded in her fictional representations of Aborigine people. Nineteenth Century Australian literature was thoughtful by the attendance of ‘the Aborigine’ in literature. Prichard indicated to her readers that Australians usually didn’t view and/or read writings which dealt with a white man’s association with an Australian aborigine. Society was not very much opened towards multicultural themes which this novel had dealt with. Novels such as ‘Coonardoo’ looked at white and aborinal racial and sexual associations. Prichard’s novel ‘Coonardoo’, was first published in 1929, it portrayed an interesting representation of racial tensions and post-colonial settlement in Australia during the 1920’s. ‘Coornardoo’ raised many issues towards race matters between Indigenous Australians and the White Australians in the early twentieth century. Among those conflicts between customs and traditions, pre-feminist attitudes which concerned differences in status between Indigenous women and the White women, cultural expectations regarding relationships …show more content…

‘Unpolished Gem’ attempted to move from the periods of migrant literature novels. ‘The novel is reflected in the eyes and behaviour of schoolmates and friends, in particular, to cultural conflicts and competing demands as Pung navigates between family and the wider Australian society’ (Ommundsen 2010). Between the lines of Pung’s typical style there is also some matters towards Australian multicultarism. Pung and her family had difficulty towards forming the cultural gap which they experienced with the broader Australian public. Pung did a great job notifying her readers about Asian australian life. Migrant experiences were very different. Pung strikes between happiness, sadness and frusturation. ‘Unpolished Gem’ was written in a language that combined her mother’s typically Chinese expressions and her own good english. The novel was a look into the complex world of people who had to adapt. Not just to the country they had come from and moved to, but to their own selves as they changed over time. ‘Unpolished Gem’ is high class writing. Pung’s novel is mostly stereotypically Australian. She had revealed a complexity of observation that was complicated but was also available. Asians usually were written about outsiders in Autralian literary history. Outside identities were sometimes a threat towards the white country. Morrison’s style of writing could be defined as Australian social realism with strategies resulting

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