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Monthly Archives: February 2022
Book Review: “Captive Prince” Trilogy
CONTAINS SPOILERS ‘Love Conquers All’ I am sure most people are familiar with that expression. While it may sound cheesy and a bit worn out, in my opinion it describes the plot of Australian writer C.S. Pacat’s trilogy Captive Prince … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy
Tagged Australian Speculative Fiction, Book Recommendation, Book Review, C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince Trilogy, Queerness, Speculative Australia
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“Sometimes being yourself is the hardest thing” – A Review of Adiba Jaigirdar’s The Henna Wars
Adiba Jaigirdar’s debut novel The Henna Wars is a highly enjoyable and entertaining read albeit not without its flaws. Set in Dublin, Ireland, the novel follows Nishat, a Bengali Muslim girl, who recently has come out to her parents whose … Continue reading
Posted in Doubly Marginalised - Queer and Transcultural Young Adult Literature
Tagged Adiba Jaigirdar, cultural appropriation, Intersectionality, LGBTQ+, queer, Review, transcultural, YA fiction, YA literature
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Trauma and Poetry in “Catching Teller Crow”
By Benedikt von Laufenberg In this blog post, I want to focus on the first chapters of the novel Catching Teller Crow and the way in which the chapters highlight the relation between trauma and detective work. Moreover, I want … Continue reading
Posted in Magic Realism
Tagged Speculative Australia
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Elements of Time in Joan Lindsay’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
this blogpost includes spoilers of the novel and its adaptations An uncanny premise Joan Lindsay’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1967) is a pseudo-historical Gothic Horror novel which was followed by its famous movie adaptation “The Day of Saint Valentine” in … Continue reading
Posted in Gothic & Horror
Tagged Australian Speculative Fiction, Environmental Horror, Gothic & Horror, Gothic Horror, historical fiction, Joan Lindsay, Mystery Fiction, Outback, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Speculative Australia
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The Long Road Leading up to the Australian Film Revival, Part I
The history of the Australian film industry can be summarized as a continuous rise and fall that ultimately reached its peak with the New Australian Cinema of the 1970s. On the path towards this high point lay a great number … Continue reading
Australian Gothic vs. European Gothic
by Leonora Rexhi The Gothic is a rather broad genre. There are different versions across the globe. Subcategories are, for example, the Australian Gothic, the European Gothic and the American Gothic. All of them are relatively similar to each other, … Continue reading
Othering and Orientalism in “A Pearling Tale” by Maxine McArthur
The short story A Pearling Tale by Maxine McArthur is about Jiro Aoyanagi, a diver who is forced to go on a boat ride with his crew at the end of the diving season. His job is to dive for … Continue reading
Tagged A Pearling Tale, Asian-Australianness, Australian Speculative Fiction, Maxine McArthur, Orientalism, Othering, short story, Speculative Australia, Speculative Fiction
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The Genres of Speculative Fiction – An Overview
by Nadja Marek, Renee Czyganowski, Danny Tran, and Ann-Sophie Ludwig Speculative fiction is an umbrella term that contains many different genres. Generally speaking, it deals with topics such as nature (or the supernatural) and alternate realities, either in the past … Continue reading
Review of the novel “When the Moon was Ours” (2016) by Anna-Marie McLemore
by Mira Kalcker „This is the thing I learned from loving a transgender boy who took years to say his own name: that waiting with someone, existing in that quiet, wondering space with them when they need it, is worth … Continue reading
Posted in Doubly Marginalised - Queer and Transcultural Young Adult Literature
Tagged Anna-Marie McLemore, Latine, magical realism, queer YA fiction, transgender identitiy
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A lifetime of poetry – Why you should read “The Black Flamingo”
How can a seemingly simple story of a boy coming of age and coming to terms with his identity be transformed into a visual journey, a tale telling of its time? In Dean Atta’s The Black Flamingo (2019), this is … Continue reading