The acorn of sadness : exploring precarity in critical global short fiction

Synnott, Ashleigh Patricia

The acorn of sadness : exploring precarity in critical global short fiction

Synnott, Ashleigh Patricia

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dc.contributor.author	Synnott, Ashleigh Patricia
dc.date.accessioned	2017-10-26T22:42:04Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:26:23Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/119290
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.	en_AU
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dc.description.abstract	Over the past ten years, writers and critics have increasingly noted the emergence of precarity as a literary sensibility in contemporary fiction. At the same time, questions are being asked about the capacity of literature to attend to the scope and breadth of global and local uncertainties and instabilities that affect people’s lives. This thesis, comprising an exegesis, ‘The Bird You Are Holding’, and The Acorn of Sadness, a collection of ten short stories, investigates and articulates precarity as a generative and structural framework for writing critical global short fiction. These stories are: ‘The Other End of Cleever’, ‘Not the Sea’, ‘Greetings from the Happy Return’, ‘In the End, In the Head’, ‘There Was a Man Screaming on Broadway’, ‘The Strongest Man in the World’, ‘Between Elephant and the World’, ‘The Acorn of Sadness’, ‘The Baby on Enghelab Street’ and ‘On the Road to Kuang Si Falls.’ The exegesis explores the theory of precarity and its relevance to discussions about contemporary literature, and offers a brief rationale for the generation and structure of the collection.	en_AU
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Abstract:

Over the past ten years, writers and critics have increasingly noted the emergence of precarity as a literary sensibility in contemporary fiction. At the same time, questions are being asked about the capacity of literature to attend to the scope and breadth of global and local uncertainties and instabilities that affect people’s lives. This thesis, comprising an exegesis, ‘The Bird You Are Holding’, and The Acorn of Sadness, a collection of ten short stories, investigates and articulates precarity as a generative and structural framework for writing critical global short fiction. These stories are: ‘The Other End of Cleever’, ‘Not the Sea’, ‘Greetings from the Happy Return’, ‘In the End, In the Head’, ‘There Was a Man Screaming on Broadway’, ‘The Strongest Man in the World’, ‘Between Elephant and the World’, ‘The Acorn of Sadness’, ‘The Baby on Enghelab Street’ and ‘On the Road to Kuang Si Falls.’ The exegesis explores the theory of precarity and its relevance to discussions about contemporary literature, and offers a brief rationale for the generation and structure of the collection.

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