This week, we look at Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip. Join us to be part of a brand new assessment of our national literature. The harder they pull away, the tighter the monkey grip. Noras addiction is romantic love Javos is hard drugs. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate relationship. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving and living - and nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. In this major new weekly series hosted by Ramona Koval, running in parallel with the university calendar, contemporary writers speak on seminal Australian texts, giving context, sharing their responses and exploring each work’s status as a classic of Australian literature. In Monkey Grip, Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. Australian Literature 101 is the university education in Australian literature you never had. With major universities offering only the bare minimum in courses on Australian writing and its authors, the Wheeler Centre is filling the breach. But if university syllabuses are any indication, it seems that when it comes to Australian literature, the cultural cringe is alive and well. Who tells the story of a country? What story does a country’s national literature tell about its people and its identity? Is there such a thing as Australian literature at all?Īustralians are striding the global stage with unprecedented confidence in all manner of fields.
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