Coonardoo Research Paper

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

thinking about community issues, such as, race, ethnicity, family etc. (Allen & Unwin, cited in The Australian Face 2013). In the novel ‘Barracuda’, Tsiolkas held up a mirror to the sincere uncertainties and thoughts of the middle class Australia. The novel influences the self-hating middle class (Overland 2014). Tsiolkas brought an analysis of failure, and how to come back from his greatest literary success. Tsiolka’s fiction explored characters which had wants but this was not often shown in Australian literary writing. Such characters followed drug use, violence, blood and offensive sex with youngsters. Tsiolkas was placed outside of the white domination of Australian literary life because of his refugee involvements. His writing is now more applicable towards what is called the ‘ordinary’ Australian life. Most constructions towards Australian society tend to replicate different courses which impact on identities within the modern autralian life. Tsiolkas work is typically viewed in a literal way, and is usually concerend mostly with ethnic groups, as well as, how the city which Tsiolkas had written on is being categorized. Tsiolkas wrote along the prejudices of both the Australian society and the global cultures. Most of his characters were second-generation Australians, and through this he explored a diverse patchwork of socioeconomic worlds, including Danny’s suburb and his posh school but aslo a prison, pubs and even the distant cities. However, it did reveal some truths about the Australian class system, and the pressures that young athletes found themselves under. Tsiolkas spent time in the literal sense, as the novel extended two decades to show his characters growing with their age, it made all the more apparent with an expert use of non-linear narrative, and perfect swapping between first and third person voice to narrate Dan.Danny’s life under the radically different circumstances they found themselves in.
‘Coonardoo’ is a novel about race that has become a classic towards Australian literature.

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

between men and women, and the issues of violence especially towards most women. The australian public was yet to see Aboriginal women cast in romantic connections with non-aboriginal men as a subject of literature, and the criticisms of tender writers. Also, the novel used the absence of love to its advantage, underlining the feelings of both hardship and unhappiness, which were common themes in Australian Literature. By implementing the absence of love in Australian fiction, authors strengthen this impression of a life of both burden and unhappiness, supressed love, and when feelings are suppressed they tend to come out in various ways, for example, anger in the case of Hugh towards Coonardo.
There is both factual and fictional writing when writing on refugees’.

‘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

from European writers. Morrison’s ‘North Wind’, is about fighting a bushfire, it also displayed a narrative influence. He is one of the most highly regarded Australian short story writers of our century. Morrison was a working man during the twentieth century in Australia, he captured some of the language that may otherwise had been lost.
In conclusion, Australian literature is important towards a post-national and globalised world. All of the four texts mentioned in this essay have to do with Australian literature. Post-colonial reading of literary texts such as these texts mentioned, have concentrated on being cultured readings of literary texts, and mostly when concentrated on the literary canon.

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Allen & Unwin, 2010, ‘The Australian Face’, Blackwell Publishers
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Ommundsen, W 2010, ‘Writing as a cultural cooperation: Suneeta Peres and Alice Pung’, Palgrave Macmillan, IK, pp.187.
Harper Collins Publishers Australia 2012, About the book, Book description, viewed 24 October 2014,
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