{"id":28872,"date":"2017-07-03T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=28872&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-07-20T07:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T06:58:17","slug":"futuristic-worlds-in-australian-aboriginal-fiction-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=28872&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Polak-futuristic-17\" src=\"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Polak-futuristic-17.png\" alt=\"Polak-futuristic-17\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Iva Polak. <em>Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction<\/em>. Oxford : Peter Lang, 2017.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The study focuses on the versatile theoretical corpus of the literature of the fantastic, on the one hand, and a vibrant corpus of Australian Aboriginal fiction that explores futurities, on the other. Primary interest is to discuss those Aboriginal works that boldly embark on constructing futuristic worlds and offer a distinctive contribution to the relatively recent field of native writers\u2019 science fiction. This literary corpus has entered the critical domain in the twenty-first century, often under the heading of postcolonial science fiction. Analysed corpus includes: Sam <em>Watson\u2019s The Kadaitcha Sung<\/em> (1990), Eric Willmot\u2019s <em>Below the Line<\/em> (1991), Archie Weller\u2019s <em>Land of the Golden Clouds<\/em> (1998), Alexis Wright\u2019s <em>The Swan Book<\/em> (2013) and Ellen van Neerven\u2019s novella \u201cWater\u201d published <em>in Heat and Light<\/em> collection (2014). This is the first book-length study in English that brings these works together under the prefix of contemporary SF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Contents:<\/span><br \/>\n Preface<br \/>\n Introduction: In Search of the Australian Fantastic<br \/>\n 1.1 The Australian Non-Aboriginal Fantastic and Its Epitext: A Short Survey<br \/>\n 1.2 The Aboriginal Novel and Its Epitextual Minefield<br \/>\n 1.3 Spectres of the Aboriginal Fantastic and Its Epitext<br \/>\n Chapter 1 The Fantastic as a Terminological Trickster<br \/>\n Chapter 2 The Postcolonial Turn and the Fantastic<br \/>\n Chapter 3 <em>Below the Line \u2013 <\/em>An SF Novel of (Double) Invasion<br \/>\n Chapter 4 \u201cWater\u201d \u2013 The SF Alien as a Metaphor for Culture<br \/>\n Chapter 5 <em>Land of the Golden Clouds<\/em> \u2013 An Epic Space of Science Fantasy and Fantastika<br \/>\n Chapter 6 <em>The Kadaitcha Sung<\/em> \u2013 Towards Native Slipstream<br \/>\n Chapter 7 <em>The Swan Book<\/em> \u2013 Into Transrealist Fiction<br \/>\n Conclusion: The Future Arrives <br \/>\n Works Cited<br \/>\n Index<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iva Polak. Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction. Oxford : Peter Lang, 2017. The study focuses on the versatile theoretical corpus of the literature of the fantastic, on the one hand, and a vibrant corpus of Australian Aboriginal fiction that explores futurities, on the other. Primary interest is to discuss those Aboriginal works that boldly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-by-the-staff-description"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28872"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28979,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28872\/revisions\/28979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}