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A Response to “In the Shadow Of Monte Cassino” by Lauren Keenan
It’s not easy to act according your parents’ will, especially when you do not know what secrets they live with. In the short story “In the Shadow of Monte Cassino”, published in 2017 in Huia Short Stories 12 by Māori … Continue reading
Posted in Indigenous Literature from New Zealand
Tagged Italy, Maori, Māori literature, response paper, Second World War, short story, War
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Home and Uprooting in Kelly Joseph’s “Transient”
Home. What does home mean to people? Is it the place where one grew up? The place where one is living now? The place where one’s ancestors lived? Or is home defined by the people with whom one lives together? … Continue reading
Posted in Indigenous Literature from New Zealand
Tagged Global, Home, Māori, Māori literature, Museum, Roots and Routes, short story, Uprooting
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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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Lucy Sussex, Sonia Lovecraft, and Women’s Voices in Literature
Literature is a key tool to connect people from all places with other cultures, stories, and histories. Thus, the popularity that American and English writers and stories have had in the last centuries has been undeniably successful in their sales … Continue reading
Posted in Gothic & Horror
Tagged australian authors, female voices, Lucy Sussex, short story, sonia lovecraft, Speculative Australia
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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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