Tag Archives: Australia

Orientation in “The Arrival” – paths of the past and the future

Posted on 31. March 2023 by hakanuc

Photo albums combine immediate proximity and boundless distance. They are tangibly close, but suggest an intangible vastness. Photo albums are timeless and yet they capture a concrete time. At the same time, they recall a past, a snapshot that awakens … Continue reading →

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Review of Pat Grant’s ‘The Grot -The Story of the Swamp City Grifters’

Posted on 6. March 2023 by annabell

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 →

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Impressions and Review of Safdar Ahmed’s Graphic Novel Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System

Posted on 20. December 2022 by angela99

by Angela Agelopoulou I decided to analyze Safdar Ahmed’s Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System for the class “Migration in Visual Narratives”, which deals with the migration journey portrayed in various types of visual narratives. Introduction As I … Continue reading →

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Exploring Sexuality and Queerness in Australian Fantasy: Nevernight’s Mia

Posted on 27. May 2021 by anikaklose

The Nevernight Chronicle by Australian author Jay Kristoff consists of the three novels Nevernight (2016), Godsgrave (2017), and Darkdawn (2019). The fantasy trilogy (which is very much not YA due to very graphic depictions of sex and violence) follows the … Continue reading →

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