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Category Archives: Utopia & Dystopia
Review of Pat Grant’s ‘The Grot -The Story of the Swamp City Grifters’
Pat Grant’s graphic novel The Grot was published by Top Shelf Productions in 2020 and is a collaboration with the artist Fionn McCabe. It is the first of three books that together form the collection The Story of the Swamp City Grifters. Grant … Continue reading
Posted in Migration in Visual Narratives, Utopia & Dystopia
Tagged Australia, dystopian, Fionn McCabe, Graphic Novel, Pat Grant, Review, The Grot, Top Shelf Productions
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“Mad Max: Fury Road”: A movie about female emancipation and feminism
by Adesua Atamah At first glance the Australian movie Mad Max: Fury Road by George Miller seems to be a stereotypical action movie; wild car chases, burning gasoline tanks, and deadly car crashes. But when you move your focus towards … Continue reading
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Tagged female emancipation, feminism, film review, Mad Max, Speculative Australia
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The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf – A Book Review
by Nadja Marek “You can’t transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas.” (Kwaymullina 190) As a person who genuinely enjoys dystopian novels, I have encountered many novels that involve the same aspects of this genre. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambelin Kwaymullina, Ashala Wolf, dystopia, lighthearted post-apocalyptic dystopia, Speculative Australia
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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