Context

When a question asks you to consider the influence of CONTEXT on your response to (reading of) a text, your options include:

• Your Personal Context:

  • the ‘context of reception’ (the time at which you ‘receive’ the text)

  • your understanding of Australian society, of dominant ideologies (ways of thinking), of the groups with and without power etc.

  • your reading and viewing experiences

  • your life experiences

  • your values, attitudes, beliefs - IDEOLOGIES

• Authorial Context:

  • your understanding of the author, their Ideologies, thematic concerns, other publications, their world.

• The Context of Production

  • what kind of world was the text borne of/produced in?

• socio-cultural and political context

  • your understanding of the social attitudes, values, cultural behaviours/practices and political movements or legislation of particular times and places. eg. WWII Germany, Sep 11, 2001 USA, Xmas Island Boat Tragedy, Aust. 2010, Feminist Movement of the 1960s-70s, Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-60s, Jim Crow Laws.