Belonging Area of Study - Related Texts

Article: Films dealing with the concept of Belonging in Metaphor Issue 4 2007 pp7-18

• An officer and a gentleman
• As it is in heaven
• Babel
• A Beautiful mind
• Beauty and the beast
• Beneath clouds
• Bend it like Beckham
• Billy Elliot
• Braveheart
• Bride and prejudice
• Brokeback Mountain
• Charlie and the chocolate factory
• Children of men
• December boys
• The devil wears Prada
• Donnie Darko
• E.T. the extra-terrestial
• Edward Scissorhands
• The elephant man
• The Kite runner
• Lord of the rings: Fellowship of the ring
• Finding Nemo
• Grease
• Green card
• Happy Feet
• High noon
• High Tide
• Jane Eyre
• K-Pax
• Legally blonde
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Lion king
• Look both ways
• March of the penguins
• Matilda
• Mean girls
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Miss Potter
• Monsoon Wedding
• Muriel's wedding
• My big fat Greek wedding
• The others
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Pretty Woman
• Priscilla, Queen of the desert
• The pursuit of happyness
• Puberty blues
• Radiance
• Rocky Horror picture show
• Sense & Sensibility
• Shine
• Sixth sense
• Somersault
• Sophie Scholl-the final days
• Strictly ballroom
• Swimming upstream
• To kill a mockingbird
• To Sir, with love
• Transamerica
• Whale rider
• Witness
• World's fastest Indian

• Abdel-Fattah, Randa - Does my head look big in this?
• Abdel-Fattah, Randa - Ten things I hate about me
• Achebe, Chinua - Things fall apart
• Alcott, Louisa May - Little women
• Anderson, H.C. - The ugly duckling (pre 20th century) Many versions in our catalogue
• Boyne, John - The boy in the striped pyjamas
• Brooks, Geraldine - March
• Brooks, Geraldine - People of the book
• Burke, J.C. - The story of Tom Brennan
• Byatt, A.S. - The Djinn in the nightingale's eye: five fairy stories
• Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War
• Courtenay, Bryce - The power of one
• Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
• Eliot, George - Silas Marner
• Flanagan, Richard - The unknown terrorist
• Gallico, Paul - The Snow goose
• Gleitzman, Morris - Once
• Gleitzman, Morris - Then
• Gleeson, Libby - Mahtab's story
• Golding, William - Lord of the flies
• Grant, Neil - The ink bridge
• Green, John - The fault in our stars
• Grenville, Kate - Secret river
• Haddon, Mark - The curious incident of the dog in the night time
• Hathorn, Libby - Way home
• Hathorn, Libby - Feral kid
• Higgins, Jane - The bridge
• Hinton, S. E. - The outsiders
• Hosseini, Khaled - The kite runner
• Hosseini, Khaled - A thousand splendid suns
• Johnson, Colin - Wild cat falling
• Kafka, Franz - Metamorphosis
• Keneally, Thomas - The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
• Larbalestier, Justine - Liar
• Lee, Harper - To kill a mockingbird
• McCaffrey, Kate - Destroying Avalon
• McCaffrey, Kate - In ecstasy
• McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
• Marchetta, Melinda - Looking for Alibrandi
• Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
• Meyer, Stephanie - Twilight
• Morrison, Toni - Beloved
• Nunn, Cameron - Shadows in the mirror
• Orwell, George - 1984
• Rosoff, Meg - What I was
• Roy, James - Town
• Sacher, Louis - Holes
• Salinger, J D - Catcher in the rye
• Sebold, Alice - The lovely bones
• Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society
• Shriver, Lionel - We need to talk about Kevin
• Silvey, Craig - Jasper Jones
• Steinbeck, John - Of mice and men
• Tremain, Rose - The road home
• Tyler, Anne - Digging to America
• Wild Margaret - Vampyre
• Wild, Margaret - Woolvs in the sitee
• Winton, Tim - That eye the sky
• Winton, Tim - The riders
• Zusak, Marcus - The book thief

• Anderson, Hans Christian - The little match girl
• Anderson, Hans Christian - The ugly duckling
• Baker, Jeannie - Belonging
• Baker, Jeannie - Mirror
• Baker, Jeannie - Window
• Crew, Gary and Tan, Shaun - Memorial
• Cunxin, Li - The Peasant prince
• Fairfield, Lesley - Tyranny
• Gleeson, Libby - I am Thomas
• Graham, Bob - Rose meets Mr Wintergarten
• Greder, Armin - The island
• Hathorn, Libby - Way home
• Jolly, Jane & Hurst, Elise - Ali the bold heart
• Lofthouse, Liz - Ziba came on a boat
• McKenna, Brenton - Ubby's underdogs
• Marsden, John & Tan, Shaun - The rabbits
• Parry, Glyn - Harry and Luke
• Pfister, Marcus - The Rainbow fish
• Pryor, Boori Monty & Ormerod, Jan - Shake a leg
• Riddle, Tohby -The singing hat
• Tan, Shaun - The Arrival
• Tan Shaun - The Lost thing
• Wheatley, Nadia - My place
• Wheatley, Nadia - Luke's way of looking
• Wild, Margaret - Fox
• Wild, Margaret - The dream of the thylacine
• Zion, Gene -Harry the dirty dog 

• Chung Martin, Helene - Ching chong China girl
• Cunxin, Li - Mao's last dancer
• Cunxin, Li - Mao's last dancer. Young reader's edition
• Do, Ahn - The happiest refugee
• Frank, Anne - Diary of Anne Frank / Anne Frank's diary / Diary of a young girl
• Goldsworthy, Peter ed. - True Blue?:on being Australian
• Griffin, John - Black like me
• Grogan, Josh - Marley and me
• Hirsi Ali, Ayaan - Infidel
• Jamal, Nadia - The glory garage: growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia
• Kopelman, Jay - From Baghdad with love
• McCourt, Frank - Angela's ashes
• Morgan, Sally - My place (indigenous themes)
• Penrose, Lana - To Hellas and back
• Pung, Alice - Growing up Asian in Australia
• Reimer, Andrew - Inside outside
• Robison, John Elder - Look me in the eye (living with Asperger's)
• Yen Mah, Adeline - Falling leaves: the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter

To find articles on issues of Belonging, such as the Cronulla riots, try these databases and newspaper indexes.

• Proquest Australia & New Zealand Newsstand
• Australian Public Affairs Full Text
• Australia-NZ Reference Centre
• Current Social Issues (at the library)

• Davis, Jack - No sugar (indigenous themes)
• Rigney,Tracey - "Belonging" In: Blak inside (indigenous themes)

Available in various anthologies or try searching Google.

• Coleridge, Samuel - Rime of the ancient mariner
• Coleridge, Samuel - Frost at midnight
• Dawe, Bruce - Enter without so much as knocking
• Herrick, Steven - By the river
• Mackellar, Dorothea - My country
• Murray, Les - The widower in the country
• Slessor, Kenneth - William Street
• Tennyson, Alfred - The lady of Shalott

• Kafka, Franz - Metamorphosis
• Lahiri, Jhumpa - Unaccustomed earth (collection of 8 short stories)
• Li, Yiyun - A thousand years of good prayers
• Wheatley, Nadia - "Alien" in Ten out of ten (not held by Sutherland Shire Libraries)
• Winton, Tim - The turning
• Zable, Arnold - The fig tree

A Google search will locate lyrics to these songs.

• Any National Anthem
• Allen, Peter - I still call Australia home
• Anu, Christine - My island home
• Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
• Clarkson, Kelly - Breakaway
• Eagles - Hotel California
• Green Day - American idiot
• Lavigne, Avril - When you're gone
• Lopez, Jennifer - Jenny from the block
• Nickleback - Rockstar
• Ramones - Outsider
• Roach, Archie - My beautiful child• Took the children away
• Springsteen, Bruce - Born in the USA
• Timbaland - The way I are
• U2 - Sunday bloody Sunday
• The Who - Who are you?

• Big Brother
• Ugly Betty
• Survivor