Good Boy Bad Girl

Dale, A; Dale, J

Good Boy Bad Girl

Dale, A

Dale, J

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Publisher:: Akashic Books
Citation:: Good Boy Bad Girl, 2019, pp. 48 - 64 (16)
Issue Date:: 2019-04-01

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dc.contributor.author	Dale, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7559-6641	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Dale, J	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-04-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Good Boy Bad Girl, 2019, pp. 48 - 64 (16)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132480
dc.format	Creative written work	en_US
dc.publisher	Akashic Books	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Good Boy Bad Girl	en_US
dc.title	Good Boy Bad Girl	en_US
utslib.location	Brooklyn New York	en_US
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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pubs.consider-herdc	true	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Brooklyn New York	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Background Drawing on the anxieties of contemporary readers, writers from Dashiell Hammett to Didier Daeninckx have responded to the dilemmas of their times in ways that are specific to their culture and have demonstrated the highly adaptable properties of Noir. The critic Lee Horsley has written, ‘Noir is the voice of violation, acting to expose the inadequacy of conventional, cultural, political and also narrative models.’ A distinctly global phenomenon with roots in existentialism and expressionism, noir provides a lens through which writers can view the chronicles of contemporary urban existence. Contribution Accompanied by a 1200 word essay, City of Change, which defines noir in relation to the city of Sydney, Good Boy Bad Girl is a 5000 word fictional work that explores the life of a young, working-class woman in a suburb undergoing rapid gentrification. The perspective of the marginalized is adopted and given a priority of focus in her struggle for financial and emotional stability. With the loss of local community that often accompanies social dislocation, this work draws on themes of alienation and entrapment, and functions as a socio-political critique. Significance Sydney is the first Australian city selected for inclusion in the acclaimed Akashic Noir series and this work provides an international context for the Noir genre in Australia. ‘As a snapshot of contemporary Australia,’ The Australian Book Review wrote, ‘this collection delivers in ways that most middlebrow literary fiction cannot seem to get its head around ... here is a tough but tender vision of multicultural working-class Australia, with all its warts and anxieties.’ Kirkus Review wrote, ‘In Dale’s Good Boy, Bad Girl, a young woman with aspirations finds a sinister way to take care of her ageing grandmother.’ Publishers Weekly described the stories as ‘uniformly strong.’ And The Sydney Morning Herald called the work ‘a startling glimpse into the dark heart of Sydney and its sprawling suburbs’.	en_US

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