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Identify and elucidate the context in which Australian literature was produced and how it was originally interpreted, and how interpretations have changed over time.
Undertake the close analysis of complex literary texts and write clearly about that analysis
Australian literature has been seen as interested in trying to locate a specifically Australian identity. In this subject we consider twentieth and twenty-first century Australian writing which is in some way concerned with identifying Australian place, nationality, character, and landscape through representations of the past and our contemporary world. We examine the various ways in which history and place is used to present or contest versions of Australia.