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'The usual postmodern suspicions about diligently deciphering authorial intent or stridently seeking fixed meaning/s and/or binary distinctions in an artistic work aside, this self-indulgent essay pushes the boundaries regarding normative academic research, for it focusses on my own (minimally celebrated) published creative writing’s status as a literary innovation. Dedicated to illuminating some of the less common denominators at play in Australian horror, my paper recalls the creative writing process involved when I set upon the (arrogant?) goal of creating a new genre of creative writing: that of the ‘Aboriginal Fantastic’. I compare my work to the literary output of a small but significant group (2.5% of the population), of which I am a member: Aboriginal Australians. I narrow my focus even further by examining that creative writing known as Aboriginal horror. And I reduce the sample size of my study to an exceptionally small number by restricting my view to one type of Aboriginal horror literature only: the Aboriginal vampire novel, a genre to which I have contributed professionally with the 2011 paperback and 2012 e-book publication of That Blackfella Bloodsucka Dance! However, as this paper hopefully demonstrates, and despite what may be interpreted by some cynical commentators as the faux sincerity of my taxonomic fervour, Aboriginal horror is a genre noteworthy for its instability and worthy of further academic interrogation.' (Introduction)
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Writing Indigenous Vampires : Aboriginal Gothic or Aboriginal Fantastic?
M/C Journal
Subjects:
- Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film 2010 multi chapter work criticism
- Mudrooroo : A Likely Story : Identity and Belonging in Postcolonial Australia 2007 single work criticism
- The Undying 1998 single work novel
- The Promised Land 2000 single work novel
- That Blackfella Bloodsucka Dance! 2011 single work novel
- Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines 1924 selected work prose
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