Resources and Links

Fiction

 
Young adult fiction
  • John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (also a film released in 2009)
  • Benjamin Zephaniah, Refugee Boy
  • Amit Chaudhuri, A New World
  • Suzanne Gervais, That's Why I Wrote This song (lyrics and video make this multimedia)
  • Kathy Lette, Puberty Blues (also a film)  
  • Scott Monk, Raw  
  • Maureen McCarthy, The In-Between series
  • Maureen McCarthy, Queen Kat and St Jude
  • Ting-xing Ye, Throwaway Daughter
  • Abdel-Fattah, Randa, Does my head look big in this
  • Beale, Fleur, Juno of Taris
  • Bilkuei, Cola, Cola's Journey
  • Hayes, Rosemary, Mixing it 
  • Laird, Elizabeth, A little piece of ground
  • Sis, Peter, The Wall: growing up behind the Iron curtain

Non fiction

 
Poetry
  • Belonging, New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, Edited by Niloufar Talebi
  • Joseph's Coat: An anthology of multicultural writing, Peter Skryznecki
  • Wole Soyinka, "The Telephone Conversation" http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/Elements_of_Lit_Course6/20th%20Century/Collection%2015/TelephoneConversation.htm
  • Robert Gray, "Journey: the North coast", "Boarding House Blues", "Emptying the Desk" from Selected New Poems
  • Kate Jennings, Couples
  • W H Auden, "Refugee Blues" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/refugee-blues/
  • Bobbi Sykes, "Ambrose", "Monopoly"
  • Kenneth Slessor, "William Street"
  • Robert Gray, "The Late Ferry"
  • Seamus Heaney, "Clearances"
  • Les Murray, "The Conquest", "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow"
  • Fay Zwicky, "Letting go"
  • Sylvia Plath, "Kindness", "The Applicant"
  • Bruce Dawe, "Drifters"
  • Adrienne Rich, "Mother-Right", "After Twenty Years"
  • Oodgeroo Noonuccal, "We Are Going", "colour Bar"
  • Gwen Harwood, "Suburban Sonnet", "Father and Child", "Class of 1927"
  • Robert Frost, "The Mending Wall"
  • Judith Wright, "Brothers and sisters", "Australia 1970"

 
Drama

 
Graphic novels and picture books
  • Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan
  • The Island, Greder Armin
  • Memorial, Gary Crew and Shaun Tan
  • Way Home, Libby Hathorn and Gregory Rogers
  • My Place, Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins
  • Belonging, Jeannie Baker
  • Window, Jeannie Baker
  • The Arrival, Shaun Tan
  • Possum Magic, Mem Fox
  • Ten Little fingers and Ten Little Toes, Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury
  • Almond, David, The Savage

 
Film
  • The Boys are Back, dir. Scott Hicks
  • Genova, dir. Michael Winterbottom
  • Nowhere Boy, dir. Sam Taylor Wood
  • Up In the Air, dir. Jason Reitman
  • An Education, dir. Lone sherfig
  • Mary and Max, dir. Adam Elliot
  • Milk, dir. Gus Van Sant
  • Gran Torino, dir. Clint Eastwood
  • Slumdog Millionaire, dir. Danny Boyle
  • Australia, dir. Baz Luhrmann
  • Suddenly, dir. Johan Brisinger
  • Big Fish, dir. Tim Burton
  • Brick Lane, dir. Sarah Gavron
  • Edward Scissorhands, dir. Tim Burton
  • Home Song Stories, dir. Tony Ayers
  • The December Boys, dir. Rod Hardy
  • Rabbit Proof Fence, Phillip Noyce
  • Once Were Warriors, dir. Lee Tamahori
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, dir. Julian Schnabel
  • Girl Interrupted, dir. James Mangold
  • When Did You Last See Your Father, dir. Anand Tucker
  • As It Is In Heaven, dir. Kay Pollack
  • My Life as a Dog, dir. Lasse Halstrom
  • High Tide, dir. Gillian Armstrong
  • The Italian, dir. Andrei Kravchuck
  • Little Miss Sunshine, dir. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
  • Look Both Ways, dir. Sarah Watt
  • Somersault, dir. Cate Shortland
  • Monsoon Wedding, dir. Mira Nair
  • In America, dir. Jim Sheridan
  • Whale Rider, dir. Niki Caro
  • Swimming Upstream, dir. Russell Mulcahy
  • Spirited Away dir. Hayao Miyazaki
  • The Red Ballon dir. Albert Lamorisse
  • Ladybird, Ladybird dir. Ken Loach
  • Kes, dir. Ken Loach
  • Terms of Endearment dir. James L Brooks
  • Brokeback Mountain dir. Ang Lee
  • Pleasantville dir. Gary Ross

 
Song Lyric

 
Note: Song lyrics, however much you love the song, may not be your strongest choice in terms of depth of ideas for you to discuss and the variety of techniques used.
  • Treaty, Yothu Yindi
  • Beds are Burning, Midnight Oil
  • No Bravery, James Blunt
  • So What, Pink
  • Stupid Girls, Pink
  • Belonging, Bread.
  • Oh Father, Madonna
  • This used to be my playground, Madonna
  • Don’t cry for me Argentina, Time Rice (You need context here)
  • If I were a boy, Beyonce
  • Viva La Vida, Coldplay
  • Chasing Pavements, Adele
  • All across the world, Silverchair
  • Scar, Missy Higgins
  • Lyrics to Peter Allen's "I still call Australia home": http://www.lyrics007.com/print.php?id=TkRBNU1EZ3c


 
Online
 
An Australian government sponsored exhibition on the theme of belonging: http://www.belonging.org/
 
An interview with Jeannie Baker: http://www.jeanniebaker.com/focus_web/belonging_interview.htm

 
A book rap on Belonging by Jeannie Baker: http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/belonging/welcome.htm
 
An essay on belonging and exclusion (academic): http://www.manningclark.org.au/papers/belonging.htm
 
A SMH survey on 'belonging': http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/feeling-of-not-belonging-plagues-one-in-four-study-finds/2008/07/02/1214950851281.html

 
This page may help with defining the concept: http://www.abc.net.au/talkitup/chalkitup/peerculture.htm

 
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