TY - BOOK
T1 - Footprints (a novella for adults) ; and Sketchy business (a novel for young readers) ; and Alienation and boundaries in selected works of Tim Winton written for adults and for young readers
AU - Banyard, Jennifer
PY - 2013/9/16
Y1 - 2013/9/16
N2 - Western Australian author Tim Winton said that if we accept boundaries other people
set for us then we’re just suckers. His comment reflects the hypocrisy and fickleness
of many boundaries, and the flimsy foundation of alienation that may arise from being
on the ‘wrong’ side of a boundary. The issue of alienation and associated boundaries
is explored in each of the three components that comprise this creative writing thesis.
The novella for adults, Footprints, set in Japan and in Broome, Western Australia,
focuses the theme of alienation and boundaries on the WWII internment of the
Japanese pearl diver Hiroshi, attempting to paint a picture of the human side of the
Japanese population that was demonised en masse during the war. The novel for
young readers, Sketchy Business, elicits the theme through the over-eager newshound
Pollo, whose biased assumptions lead to damaging false judgements about a
newcomer to her town, and through Pollo’s offsider, Will, who is having family
troubles. The dissertation explores the concepts of alienation and boundaries as
rendered by Winton in his novels Dirt Music and Lockie Leonard, Legend. It looks, in
particular, at Winton’s manipulation of narrative elements such that Legend, though
departing from several commonly accepted conventions of young readers’ fiction,
maintains strong appeal to its young audience.
AB - Western Australian author Tim Winton said that if we accept boundaries other people
set for us then we’re just suckers. His comment reflects the hypocrisy and fickleness
of many boundaries, and the flimsy foundation of alienation that may arise from being
on the ‘wrong’ side of a boundary. The issue of alienation and associated boundaries
is explored in each of the three components that comprise this creative writing thesis.
The novella for adults, Footprints, set in Japan and in Broome, Western Australia,
focuses the theme of alienation and boundaries on the WWII internment of the
Japanese pearl diver Hiroshi, attempting to paint a picture of the human side of the
Japanese population that was demonised en masse during the war. The novel for
young readers, Sketchy Business, elicits the theme through the over-eager newshound
Pollo, whose biased assumptions lead to damaging false judgements about a
newcomer to her town, and through Pollo’s offsider, Will, who is having family
troubles. The dissertation explores the concepts of alienation and boundaries as
rendered by Winton in his novels Dirt Music and Lockie Leonard, Legend. It looks, in
particular, at Winton’s manipulation of narrative elements such that Legend, though
departing from several commonly accepted conventions of young readers’ fiction,
maintains strong appeal to its young audience.
KW - Creative writing
KW - Tim Winton
KW - Dirt music
KW - Lockie Leonard
KW - Writing practice
KW - Lockie Leonard, legend
KW - Alienation
KW - Boundaries
M3 - Doctoral Thesis
ER -