Modul 11
Australian Literature
I.
Australian Literature Periods
1 Colonial Period
1 Pastoral Literature
1 Gold Rush
1 Nationalism Literature
1 WWI and WWII
1 Australian Modern Literature
1 Australian Contemporary
Literature
II.
Characteristics of Each Periods
A. Colonial Period
1 Convicts & Bush Ballads
 Reflecting hazardous life
of the convicts and
bushmen
 Narrative
 Oral  songs
Less stressing on the
literary values
1 Poems
 Referring to English
Romanticism
 Describing the Nature of
Australia
 Readers : British People
at UK
1 Prose
 Non Fiction

Vayage Report
(James Cook)

Journal (Walking
Tench)

Dairy (Rachel
Henning)

innocent
Fiction
For the Term of His
Natural Life by Marcus
Clarke

Representing the
life of an
convict


=a
Unjustly
dispossessed,
exiled &
brutalized
Suffering of human
destiny as life
prison
B.
Pastoral Literature
1 General Characteristics
 Bush & Pastoral  a
Lotus of National
Identity


Describing Life in the
Bush & Pastoral &
Station
Naib Characters :
Drover, Swagman, Bush
Ranger
1 Poems : Pastoral Ballads
 Galloping Rhymes 
“The Sick
Stockrider” by
: Adam
Lindsay Gordon
 Romantized Australian
Nature & Aborigines
1 Prose : Saga
Geoffrey Hamlyn by : Henry
Kingsley
 Capturing Sheep raising life in 1830’s
 Suggesting the
development of
Australian economy 
Sheep
C.
Gold - Rush Era
1 Melodrama
“The Sunny South” by George
Darell
 Life in the mine
 Well - established economy of
Australia
 Xenophobia towards the
Chinese
1 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.
Life
Nationalism Period
1 General Characteristics
 Heroic Figures
 Main Settings : Bush
 Masculinity  Themes
1 Prose
 Henry Lawson = Father of
Australia Prose on Bush


The Drover’s Wife
The Loaded Dog
1 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
1 General Characteristics
 WW I

Supporting the British

Tragedy Gallipoli

Patriotism & Heroism

Round in
(1965)
WW II

Alliance with USA

Reflacting the Cruelty of
War

Xenophobia to the
Japanese

Randolph Stow wrote
The Merry Go
the Seas
F.
Australian Modern Literature
1 Movement of Modernism on
Australia Literature
 Female Writers
 Aborigine Authors
 Multicultural Literature
 Bush vs City Themes
1 Female Writes
 Miles Franklin : My Brilliant
Career
 Barbaras Bayton : Squeaker’s
Mate
 Majurie Barnard : The
Persimmon Tree
 Judith Wright
 Glendas Adams : Dancing on
Coral
1 Aborigine Authors
 Mudrorou Narogin
 Odgeroo Noonucal
 Jack Davis
 Sally Morgan
1 Multicultural Literature
 Immigrant Literature

Greek

Germany

Japanese

G.
Homosexual Literature

Lesbian

Gay
 Other Minority Literature
Australian Contemporary Literature
1 The celebration of the minor group
literature