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Finches of Mars
Colonists on Mars fight to prevent their own extinction in \"a suspenseful genre-bending combination of straight SF and mystery\" ( Booklist , starred review).Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp.For many, Mars represents humankind's last hope.
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ON COOK
KURNELL IS A no-fuss, unpretentious place given that it's supposed to be the cradle of the nation. Stretching along a promontory that looks like a witch's finger pointing west from the southern shore of Botany Bay, opposite Sydney Airport, Kurnell is a hotchpotch sprawl of fibro modesty and glass-and-steel ambition, where trailered speedboats rest on the verges and Aussie flags snap on front-yard poles.
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Unsettling stories : settler postcolonialism and the short story composite
The first study of the synergies between postcolonialism and the genre of the short story composite, Unsettling Stories considers how the form of the interconnected short story collection is well suited to expressing thematic aspects of postcolonial writing on settler terrain. Unique for its comparative considerations of American, Canadian, and Australian literature within the purview of postcolonial studies, this is also a considered study of the difficult place of the postcolonial settler.
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Fulfilling the Name: Catherine Tekakwitha and Marguerite Kanenstenhawi (Eunice Williams)
[...] while Catherine Tekakwitha was the subject of hagiographies, in the nineteenth century the minister's daughter became a model for \"cautionary\" fictional representations of white savages in nineteenth-century American fiction (Namias 97), including Faith, the younger sister of the heroine of Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, and Ruth, in lames Fenimore Cooper's The Wept of Wishton-Wish. According to Greer, Catherine Tekakwitha's \"short life happens to be more fully and richly documented than that of any other indigenous person of North or South America in the colonial period,\" yet this documentation, produced by Cholenec and Chauchetière, is \"certainly not transparent\" (Mohawk Saint vii, viii).
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The poetics of displacement in Indian English fiction: Kipling's 'The man who would be king', Rushdie's 'East, West' and Desai's 'Fasting, Feasting'
This essay analyses the poetics of displacement found in three works by three authors born in India and writing in English: Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories, Salman Rushdie's East, West, and Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting. Focusing on the aspects of harmony, credibility and metafiction in these works, I will outline how these authors with very different backgrounds but a common \"double unbelonging\" have succeeded in offering their readers a consciousness of displacement and disruption which
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The Flawed Design: American Imperialism in N. Scott Momaday's
In this essay, Christopher Douglas explores the many parallels between N. Scott Momaday's 1968 novel, House Made of Dawn, and Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel, Blood Meridian. Douglas argues that the novels' \"improbable echoes...emerge from their similar critiques of European-American imperialism in the Southwest.\" (Critique) Ways in which both novels \"seek to uncover the particularly Christian basis for much of the colonization of the Southwest\" are noted.
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White Skins/Black Masks
In this exciting re-reading of the classic work of Haggard and Kipling, Gail Ching-Liang Low examines the representational dynamics of colonizer versus colonized. Exploring the interface between the native 'other' as a reflection and as a point of address, the author asserts that this 'other' is a mirror reflecting the image of the colonizer - a 'cultural cross-dressing'. Employing psychoanalysis, anthropology and postcolonial theory, Low analyzes the way in which fantasy and fabulation are caught up in networks of desire and power. White Skins/Black Masks is a fascinating entry into the current debate of post-colonial theory.
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