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Value |
Language |
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dc.contributor.author |
Adelaide, D
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3220-8821
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dc.date.issued |
2019 |
en_US |
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dc.identifier.citation |
2019, 1st, pp. 3 - 324 |
en_US |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
9781760781699 |
en_US |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132698
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dc.description.abstract |
A collection of fiction focusing on the twists of fate that exist beneath the surface of everyday life. |
en_US |
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dc.format |
Short fiction and novella |
en_US |
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dc.publisher |
Picador |
en_US |
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dc.title |
ZEBRA |
en_US |
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utslib.location |
Sydney |
en_US |
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utslib.for |
1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing |
en_US |
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utslib.citation.edition |
1st |
en_US |
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pubs.embargo.period |
Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy |
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utslib.copyright.status |
closed_access |
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pubs.consider-herdc |
false |
en_US |
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pubs.edition |
1st |
en_US |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Sydney |
en_US |
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pubs.rights-statement |
Background The short story collection is a major form for literary practitioners (Blain 2013; McFarlane 2016) yet one of its challenges is establishing internal structure in the absence of a clearly articulated theme. Authors such as Bennett Daylight (2015), Gonsalves (2016) and Birch (2017) focus on young adults, immigrant Indians, and ‘common people’, respectively. This book responds to theme-based structural integrity by presenting a series of stories that provide intellectual, artistic and emotional continuity via the arrangement of voice. It extends practice through using a unifying theme as organisational principle, and argues for the autonomy of individual stories. Contribution Comprising 13 short fictions and a novella (83000 words), written over a period of 3 years, ZEBRA offers new perspectives on contemporary debates surrounding politics, borders, illness, dispossession and post-traumatic stress. The eponymous novella represents a major creative challenge in condensing a 90000-word draft to a tightly focused 32000 words that demystify the role of public stewardship and challenge the concept of home in light of Indigenous claims to belonging and recognition, at the same time concluding the reader’s journey via voice into bold, newly-imagined scenarios. From first story to last, original insights emerge into the life of an insomniac, a refugee, a war veteran, a migraine suffer, a prime minister, or a silenced lobbyist awaiting recognition. Significance ZEBRA builds on the author’s reputation for engaging readers with confronting subject matter presented in wry or ironical voices. Readers are permitted to provide the interpretative thread of the collection: an ABR review concludes that it examines ‘many of the core myths that Australia as a nation tells about itself’. Published by Picador, the book was profiled in the Sydney Morning Herald, reviewed in major newspapers and journals (Saturday Paper, Australian, Overland), and featured in an interview on ABC RN. |
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