Australian literature canon
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The Australian literature canon is the body of widely recognized and influential Australian literary works that have shaped the nation’s cultural and literary identity.
Statements (105)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
cultural construct
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literary canon ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPart |
A Fortunate Life
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An Imaginary Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Away NERFINISHED ⓘ Benang NERFINISHED ⓘ Capricornia NERFINISHED ⓘ Carpentaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Cloudstreet NERFINISHED ⓘ Collected Poems of A. D. Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ Collected Poems of Banjo Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Collected Poems of Gwen Harwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Collected Poems of Henry Lawson NERFINISHED ⓘ Collected Poems of Judith Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ Collected Poems of Kenneth Slessor NERFINISHED ⓘ Collected Poems of Les Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Collected Poems of Oodgeroo Noonuccal NERFINISHED ⓘ Coonardoo NERFINISHED ⓘ Don’s Party NERFINISHED ⓘ Five Bells NERFINISHED ⓘ Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence NERFINISHED ⓘ For the Term of His Natural Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Gould’s Book of Fish NERFINISHED ⓘ Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ My Brilliant Career NERFINISHED ⓘ My Place NERFINISHED ⓘ No Sugar NERFINISHED ⓘ Picnic at Hanging Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ Possum Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ Radiance NERFINISHED ⓘ Remembering Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ Robbery Under Arms NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Little Australians NERFINISHED ⓘ Songs of a Sentimental Bloke NERFINISHED ⓘ Stolen NERFINISHED ⓘ Storm Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Such Is Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Summer of the Seventeenth Doll NERFINISHED ⓘ The 7 Stages of Grieving NERFINISHED ⓘ The Aunt’s Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Battlers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bulletin Story Book NERFINISHED ⓘ The Burnt Ones NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith NERFINISHED ⓘ The Club NERFINISHED ⓘ The Drover’s Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ The Female Eunuch NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fortunes of Richard Mahony NERFINISHED ⓘ The Getting of Wisdom NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Harp in the South NERFINISHED ⓘ The Harp in the South trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lucky Country NERFINISHED ⓘ The Magic Pudding NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man Who Loved Children NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man from Snowy River NERFINISHED ⓘ The Monkey’s Mask NERFINISHED ⓘ The Narrow Road to the Deep North NERFINISHED ⓘ The One Day of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ The Oxford Literary History of Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pea Pickers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ The Penguin New Literary History of Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ The Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ The Power of One NERFINISHED ⓘ The Removalists NERFINISHED ⓘ The Riders NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret River NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shiralee NERFINISHED ⓘ The Slap NERFINISHED ⓘ The Solid Mandala NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thorn Birds NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tree of Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tyranny of Distance NERFINISHED ⓘ The Vivisector NERFINISHED ⓘ The Women in Black NERFINISHED ⓘ True History of the Kelly Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ Voss NERFINISHED ⓘ We of the Never Never NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Australian national identity
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Indigenous dispossession ⓘ class relations ⓘ colonialism ⓘ gender relations ⓘ migration ⓘ multiculturalism ⓘ settler society ⓘ the bush ⓘ the outback ⓘ urban life in Australia ⓘ war and memory ⓘ |
| includesGenre |
children’s literature
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drama ⓘ literary non-fiction ⓘ memoir ⓘ novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Australian literary criticism
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curriculum design in Australian schools ⓘ debates about canon formation ⓘ postcolonial literary studies ⓘ university Australian literature courses ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.