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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural construct
literary canon
country Australia
hasLanguage English
hasPart A Fortunate Life
An Imaginary Life
Away
Benang
Capricornia
Carpentaria
Cloudstreet
Collected Poems of A. D. Hope
Collected Poems of Banjo Paterson
Collected Poems of Gwen Harwood
Collected Poems of Henry Lawson
Collected Poems of Judith Wright
Collected Poems of Kenneth Slessor
Collected Poems of Les Murray
Collected Poems of Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Coonardoo
Don’s Party
Five Bells
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
linked to: Rabbit-Proof Fence

For the Term of His Natural Life
Gould’s Book of Fish
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
My Brilliant Career
My Place
No Sugar
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Possum Magic
Radiance
Remembering Babylon
Robbery Under Arms
Seven Little Australians
Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
Stolen
Storm Boy
Such Is Life
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
The 7 Stages of Grieving
The Aunt’s Story
The Battlers
The Bulletin Story Book
The Burnt Ones
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Club
The Drover’s Wife
The Female Eunuch
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
The Getting of Wisdom
The Great World
The Harp in the South
The Harp in the South trilogy
The Lucky Country
The Magic Pudding
The Man Who Loved Children
The Man from Snowy River
The Monkey’s Mask
linked to: The Monkey's Mask

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
linked to: Oku no Hosomichi

The One Day of the Year
The Oxford Literary History of Australia
The Pea Pickers
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry
The Penguin New Literary History of Australia
The Plains
The Power of One
The Removalists
The Riders
The Secret River
The Shiralee
The Slap
The Solid Mandala
The Thorn Birds
The Tree of Man
The Tyranny of Distance
The Vivisector
The Women in Black
True History of the Kelly Gang
Voss
We of the Never Never
hasTheme Australian national identity
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
drama
literary non-fiction
memoir
novel
poetry
short story
isSubjectOf Australian literary criticism
curriculum design in Australian schools
debates about canon formation
postcolonial literary studies
university Australian literature courses

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Monkey Grip partOf Australian literature canon