VCE English and EAL, English Language, and Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Copies of the text

• The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton

Interviews

• Herrick, Linda ‘The guy was all over the road like a spilt pizza’ The Spinoff October 19, 2016

Reviews

• The bard of the beach-front; essays from Australia. (2017, May 20). The Economist, 423, 81.
• Antipodes Mulcrone, K. (2017). Winton maintains mystique behind the curtain/The boy behind the curtain. Antipodes, 31(2), 451-452.
• Knox, Malcolm (October 08, 2016) Opening the door on a writer’s inspiration Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, p.2
• Kroenert, T. (2016). Faith and humanism behind Tim Winton’s curtain . Eureka Street, 26(21), 34–36.

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time New York: Dial Press, 1963.

Analysis

• Overview from Gale literature
• Lewis, L. W. (2019). Philadelphia Fire and the Fire Next Time: Wideman Responds to Baldwin. In J. Vereecke (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 376, pp. 136-143). Gale. (Reprinted from Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman, pp. 145-159, by B. TuSmith & K. E. Byerman, Eds., 2006, U of Tennessee
• Farred, G. (2015). Love is Asymmetrical: James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.  Critical Philosophy of Race, 3(2), 284–304.
• Ferriter, Courtney D.(2016) The Uses of Race and Religion: James Baldwin’s Pragmatist Politics in The Fire Next Time James Baldwin Review. 2 (1) pp 126-139

Further Resources

• SLV Catalogue

Copies of the text

• Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole (various editions including online)

Analysis

• Gunning, S. (2001). Traveling with Her Mother's Tastes: The Negotiation of Gender, Race, and Location in "Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands  Signs, 26(4), 949–981.
• Robinson, A. (1994). Authority and the Public Display of Identity: "Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
  Feminist Studies, 20(3), 537–557