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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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Cargo (2017): Australian Horror and Aboriginal Culture
by Robin Burger Cargo is a 2017 Australian Netflix original horror film based on a 2013 short film of the same name. However, it is debatable whether it really can be described as horror since while it is certainly a … Continue reading
Posted in Gothic & Horror
Tagged Aboriginal representation, Australian movies, Australian Speculative Fiction, Cargo, Gothic & Horror, Horror, Speculative Australia, zombie
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“The Fall of the Jade Sword” (2017) and the History of Asian Australians
by Lisa-Marie Richter, Adesua Atamah, Ben Königsfeld, Kathleen Reiswich We have recently read the short story “The Fall of the Jade Sword” by Stephanie Lai and two of its central topics have caught our attention. The hero addressed in the … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy
Tagged Asian Australians, Australian Speculative Fiction, Speculative Australia, Stephanie Lai, The Fall of the Jade Sword
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How Suspense is Created in Grace Chan’s “Of Hunger and Fury” (2020)
by Benedikt von Laufenberg In this blog post, I want to discuss Grace Chan’s short story “Of Hunger and Fury“ (2020) by focussing on three different aspects. First, it should be illustrated how the village in which the mysterious incidents … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy
Tagged Australian Speculative Fiction, close reading, ghost story, Grace Chan, Malaysia, Of Hunger and Fury, short story, Speculative Australia
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Jewish Australian Speculative Fiction Event
by Sevgi Osman After reading The Time of The Ghosts by Gillian Polack, I decided to participate in an event organized by my lecturers, where Jewish Australian authors gathered and talked about speculative fiction, specifically Jewish Australian speculative fiction. Since … Continue reading
Tagged event, Gillian Polack, Jack Dann, Jason Franks, Jewish Australian Speculative Fiction, personal perspective, Rivqa Rafael, Speculative Australia
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10 Questions with Gillian Polack on The Time of the Ghosts – and one bonus!
Before we move onto the second phase of our student blogging, let’s end our series of blog posts about Gillian Polack’s The Time of the Ghosts with an interview with Gillian herself! 1. Why is the novel entitled The Time … Continue reading
Tagged 10 questions, Australian Speculative Fiction, Gillian Polack, Interview, Speculative Australia, Speculative Fiction, Time of the Ghosts
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Judging a Book By its Covers: The Time of the Ghosts
by Theodora Charalambous Everyone knows the age-old saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, and although most of us try to implement it in our daily lives, when it comes to the book buying experience things seem to be … Continue reading
Tagged Australian Speculative Fiction, Covers, Gillian Polack, Paratext, Speculative Australia, Time of the Ghosts
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Antisemitism in the Melusine stories
by Adesua Atamah, Ben Königsfeld, Kathleen Reiswich & Lisa-Marie Richter Gillian Polack is an Australian writer and medievalist who was born in Melbourne. She has been nominated for numerous awards throughout her career as an author and won the Ditmar … Continue reading
Tagged Antisemitism, Australian Speculative Fiction, Gillian Polack, Jewishness, Speculative Australia, Time of the Ghosts
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Different Genres in Gillian Polack’s “The Time of the Ghosts”
by Leonora Rexhi The novel The Time of The Ghosts by Gillian Polack contains many different elements that seem to belong to a variety of genres. If one browses a bit through the internet, one will find out that the … Continue reading
Tagged Genres, Review, Speculative Australia, Time of the Ghosts
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Interpretative Approaches to Women in “Time of the Ghosts” – Academic Musings
by Benedikt von Laufenberg This blog post is concerned with the way female characters are presented in Gillian Pollack’s The Time of the Ghost. Before the interpretation of the novel can be started, it is necessary to justify the chosen … Continue reading
Tagged Gillian Polack, Interpretative Approaches, Speculative Australia, Susan Sontag, Time of the Ghosts, Women
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