Father Comes Home

from the Wars

Literature 812.6 PAR

Research

Websites:

Bartleby Literature Guide
Review: The Guardian
Article: Reformulating Freedom: Slavery, Alienation and Ambivalence in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

Analysis:

Suzan-Lori Parks': father comes home from the wars: an arrested development
New York Times Review: Ulysses as an American Slave

Resources from the State Library:

VCE English Research Guide

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Review: Theatre Journal
Review: Windy City Times
Interview: Meet the maker: Suzan Lori-Parks
"Say Yes": Consent, Marriage, and History in the Drama and Fiction of Suzan-Lori Parks

Further resources

Gale Literary sources
SLV Catalogue

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Past exams and exam reports

These can be found on the VCAA website. Papers from 2023 are linked below. A new study design was implemented in 2023 - earlier papers are listed on the VCAA website but may not be a guide to the current exam.

2024

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2023

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