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Who Gets to Survive the Apocalypse? Disability Hierarchy in Post-Disaster Fiction in Australian YA
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Who Gets to Survive the Apocalypse? Disability Hierarchy in Post-Disaster Fiction in Australian YA
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'Australia has produced many post-disaster novels since the 1980s, our landscape and sense of global isolation inspiring long lists of environmental and political crises. While this literature provokes considerable work from ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives, the representation or use of disability in post-disaster narratives is less studied. This essay undertakes crip readings of a range of Australian young adult novels published since the 1980s, including Isobelle Carmody’s long running Obernewtyn chronicles (1986-2015) and Ambelin Kwaymullina’s Tribe sequence, particularly The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2012) and The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (2015).'(Publication abstract)
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Who Gets to Survive the Apocalypse? Disability Hierarchy in Post-Disaster Fiction in Australian YA
Australian Literary Studies
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- The Obernewtyn Chronicles 1987 series - author novel
- The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf 2012 single work novel
- The Foretelling of Georgie Spider 2015 single work novel
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