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Research background
‘Blue berries’ is informed by research into Australian coastal Gothic writing (Tondorf 2016). Gothic narratives typically focus on ‘horror, uncertainty and desperation of the human experience’ (Turcotte 1998: 10), and the experience of dying is among these. Found only in sub-tropical coastal areas, quondong berries represent the transition between life and death, acknowledging the regenerative nature of quondong trees and their Indigenous Australian use as traditional medicine (JCU 2017).
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