English Curriculum

Representation of Aboriginality in Cloudstreet

The representation of Aboriginal people in Cloudstreet is an interesting area of exploration. Below you can download some notes about two ways of interpreting the representation of Aboriginality in Cloudstreet.

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I wrote these notes ten years ago and was then interested to discover that other people shared my views. Kathleen Bednall, an academic at LaTrobe University, has some interesting things to say which coincide with mine. Click here to read her essay.

Othello as Tragedy

In the article which you can download below, I argue that Othello's tragedy can be seen as residing in his subscription to pernicious racial and gender ideologies. What I have tried to do in this article is bring together traditional approaches - Othello as tragedy - and more recent approaches which focus on representations of race and gender.

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Representations of Race and Ethnicity in Othello

Othello is one of Shakespeare's greatest and most complex plays. Its representations of race and ethncity are especially fruitful areas of analysis. Below you can download a set of notes on the representation of race and ethnicity in Othello.

Download race_and_ethnicity_in_othello.pdf