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Palakkal, Dr. Shan Eugene. ""Environmental Consciousness through Children Literature: An Attempt towards a 'Green Reading'." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 4, no. 38 (2023): 227–30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10361984.

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<strong>Introduction:</strong>Climate changes have been threatening the human life and their environment globally. As we continue to experience these phenomenal changes, it is crucial to educate current and future generations of youth about the importance of biodiversity in our everyday lives. One of the most important thing that we can teach children is how to care for and protect our 'blue planet'. In addition to experiencing the natural world by physically being outdoors, another way is to allow children of all ages to experience nature is through literature (books). Reading about nature is

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Pennell, Summer Melody, Angel Daniel Matos, and Henry "Cody" Miller. "Queer Transgressive Cultural Capital in <em>When the Moon Was Ours</em>." International Journal of Young Adult Literature 5, no. 1 (2024): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.24877/ijyal.143.

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In this article, we examine Anna-Marie McLemore’s When the Moon Was Ours (2016) through the theory of Queer Transgressive Cultural Capital. In doing so, we argue that queer and trans characters subvert existing Westernized systems of care, which are frequently reified in existing queer and trans young adult literature. We first explore how McLemore’s text uses magical realism to disrupt common trans narratives in Western contexts, in addition to exposing the norms that continue to haunt contemporary queer texts. Next, we draw from the history of trans medicine in Western contexts to examine ho

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Mahesh Chandra Tiwari. "A Comparative Study of Magic Realism in Works of Neil Gaiman and Angela Carter." Creative Launcher 6, no. 3 (2021): 86–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.3.18.

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Since the release of Gabriel Garciá Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Magical Realism has been in favour as a narrative style or genre in adult fiction. The representation of the genre in children’s and juvenile literature, on the other hand, is a recent trend; the components of the genre have been tracked and proven to be genuinely important in the interpretation of current children’s fiction, such as David Almond’s Skelling (1998). The aim of this paper is to look at the elements of magical realism in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus works in this respec

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Latham, Don. "The Cultural Work of Magical Realism in Three Young Adult Novels." Children's Literature in Education 38, no. 1 (2006): 59–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-006-9017-1.

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B, Harry, and Vijayakumar M. "Crusade for Identity: An Exploration of Space Among Gender, Diversity and Inequality in Anna-Marie McLemore’s When the Moon Was Ours and Blanca and Roja." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 13, no. 3 (2023): 579–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1303.05.

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The purpose of the research is to comprehend the highly polymorphic notion of identity in the works of Anna Marie McLemore, a Mexican American writer. A detailed inspection of his works indicates that the concept of ‘identity disintegration’ is a concern in virtually all of them. This research aims to demonstrate identity development as a process rather than a distinct result of the struggle. Identity development, as an ever-changing process, provides us with new avenues for investigating subjectivity. Using a close reading of the selected texts, this research demonstrates that identity disint

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B, Harry, and Vijayakumar M. "Exploring Queer Identity and Supernatural Realities in Katrina Leno's Summer of Salt and Sometime in Summer: A Comparative Analysis of Coming-of-Age and Magical Realism." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 14, no. 2 (2024): 534–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1402.26.

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This study examines the representation of queer identities in two popular young adult novels, “Summer of Salt” and Sometime in Summer, both authored by Katrina Leno. Utilising a queer theoretical framework, the analysis explores the use of coming-of-age narratives and elements of magical realism to create complex queer characters, mainly focusing on Felicity and Julep from Summer of Salt and Aiden from Sometime in Summer. The nuanced and complex experiences of these characters, as portrayed by Leno, are closely examined, with a particular focus on using magical realism as a genre to explore al

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Bin, Hou, Suzana Hj Muhammad, and Agnes WL Liau. "A Systematic Review of Studies on David Almond’s Young Adult Novels." World Journal of English Language 15, no. 2 (2024): 174. https://doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v15n2p174.

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This systematic review examines existing research on David Almond’s young adult novels, aiming to identify scholarly gaps in the field and guide future research. This review demonstrates that critical attention predominantly focused on the following aspects: magical realism, narrative complexity, radical space and landscape, religious and theological dimensions, the construction of age, and educational issues. Emerging interdisciplinary approaches offer promising avenues for future exploration. These include digital humanities methods, and the integration of age studies, life course studies, a

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Reynolds, Kimberley, Tom Schofield, and Diego Trujillo-Pisanty. "Children’s Magical Realism for New Spatial Interactions: Augmented Reality and the David Almond Archives." Children's Literature in Education 51, no. 4 (2019): 502–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-019-09389-2.

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Abstract This article draws on a multi-disciplinary project based on the David Almond archives at Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The project combined archival research, augmented reality (AR) technology, Almond’s magical realist writing and experimental workshops to explore whether AR can enhance young people’s engagement with archives and literature. In the process it highlighted the extent to which Almond’s fiction is itself a form of augmentation that represents a particular geographical location—the North East of England—in ways that cha

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Ebarvia, Tricia. "Carpe Librum: Seize the (YA) Book--Possible Impossibilities: The Power of Magical Realism for Adolescent Readers." English Journal 106, no. 1 (2016): 62–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej201628745.

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Priyadarshini, Arya, and Suman Sigroha. "The ‘Gentle Recitation’: Writing Trauma in Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature." International Research in Children's Literature 17, no. 2 (2024): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0558.

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Trauma signifies the collapse of personal, social, and cultural meaning systems that causes a rupture to the bond that unifies the individual and the society. While narration of such devastation has been deemed impossible, and its presence in children's and young adult (YA) literature has been debated at great length, writers have attempted, nevertheless, to narrate the ‘unspeakable’ and ‘unrepresentable’ through memoirs and fiction for adults as well as children. Through the study of a select list of titles for children and young adults on the contemporary suffering and displaced populations

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Kulikova, A. A. "Chinese Female Writer Zhang Yueran and Fictional Features of Her Prose." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 23, no. 4 (2024): 32–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2024-23-4-32-42.

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In this paper, the author analyzes the fiction of contemporary Chinese female writer Zhang Yueran (b. 1982). As a radiant and influential representative of the post-1980s generation in contemporary Chinese literature, Zhang Yueran is considered to be one of most talented and strong young writers. Post-1980s Chinese writers are known by depiction of young people’s lives in big cities with elements of magical realism, however, unlike the most Post-1980s Chinese writers, Zhang Yueran focuses more on the characters’ subjectivity and their pursuit of love (parental and romantic). Her complex charac

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de Klerk, Eugene. "Spectre and Speculation: Haunting and Uncanniness in Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree by Niq Mhlongo." Image & Text, no. 37 (November 1, 2023): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2617-3255/2023/n37a33.

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Niq Mhlongo's collection of short stories, Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree (2018), does not perhaps immediately present itself as speculative fiction. The collection, however, gives the supernatural world of African indigenous knowledge as much weight in shaping characters' lives and experiences as it does contemporary socio-political realities. It troubles established genre distinctions in that it can be seen as a work simultaneously belonging to magical realism, social realism, and horror. This article contends that it is precisely owing to the work's use of supernatural and uncanny aspects t

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Zelezinskaya, N. S. "Dialogues with teenagers. Jay Asher." Voprosy literatury, no. 5 (December 19, 2018): 126–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2018-5-126-152.

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The article examines the prose of the US writer J. Asher, a popular author of young adult novels, who does not hesitate to bring up issues such as teenage suicides, peer relationships, social networks, etc. Considering Asher’s works in the context of contemporary young adult literature in the English language, N. Zelezinskaya singles out their defining features, such as plasticity of material, realism of descriptions and motivations, the use of multiple interwoven plotlines, experimentations with the form, elements of science fiction (e. g. characters travelling to the future), etc. Along with

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McLeod, Madison. "An Initial Foray into the Digital Mapping of London in Children's and Young Adult Literature." International Research in Children's Literature 14, no. 1 (2021): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0378.

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What kinds of urban places give rise to magic in children's and young adult fantasy literature? Thinking specifically of London, is it the ancient, twisty, almost secret backstreets that seem only visible to those in-the-know that convey magical possibilities waiting to be discovered? Or is it the eclectic mix of whimsical buildings with their beautiful spires and domes alongside dreary tower blocks and council estates that gives us the sense that anything can happen in the city – that anyone can live in and move through London, including wizards, waifs, princesses, and poltergeists? The origi

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Alonso Alonso, María. "CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE YOUNG ADULT NOVEL WE ARE NOT FROM HERE, BY JENNY TORRES SANCHEZ." AILIJ. Anuario de Investigación en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, no. 21 (November 28, 2023): 11–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.35869/ailij.v0i21.4085.

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This article analyses We Are Not from Here (2020), a young adult novel by Jenny Torres Sanchez. The book follows the journey of three adolescents from Guatemala to the United States on top of La Bestia, the train that goes across Mexico. This article analyses the different narrative techniques thatTorres Sanchez utilises to cover the themes and topics that structure the novel. The novel focuses onthe network of altruistic solidarity that has bloomed all over Mexico to assist migrants while illustratingthe brutality of an exhausting journey towards the north, a fact connected to the theoretical

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Booth, Emily. "Love and Beauty on the Battlefield: Transcultural Influence and Transformation from Naoko Takeuchi’s <em>Sailor Moon</em> to Anglophone Young Adult Fantasy." International Journal of Young Adult Literature 5, no. 1 (2024): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.24877/ijyal.140.

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Despite the considerable popularity of the 1990s animated television series Sailor Moon around the world, English-language research has largely neglected the original manga. Naoko Takeuchi’s major success with the girls’ manga series, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (1991-1997), launched her into the spotlight in Japan and, to this day, its eponymous 14-year-old protagonist remains the quintessential ‘magical girl’ character. To understand the success of the series and, in particular, how Takeuchi’s innovations with the adolescent female heroine and her narrative journey resonated with young female

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Elliott, Elizabeth. "Restorying Arthurian Legend: Space, Place and Time in Once & Future and Legendborn ." Journal of the International Arthurian Society 10, no. 1 (2022): 73–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jias-2022-0006.

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Abstract In ‘Notes toward a Black fantastic’, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas argues that breaking the cycle of violence to which Black girl characters are subject in both fiction and life ‘requires rethinking our assumptions about magical child and teen characters. It requires reimaging who deserves magic in stories, and rethinking the treasure maps we’ve had for the past few centuries’. Developing from this insight, and drawing on Katherine McKittrick’s analysis of Black feminist geographies, this article considers how reimaginings of the Arthurian legend for young adult audiences engage with the his

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Sharma, Jasmine. "Stories of Water/Storied Water: Agential Realism and New Thalassology in the 21st-century Literary Classroom." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 33/3 (2024): 75–95. https://doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.33.3.06.

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The article examines water as a nonhuman agent while discussing the relevance of hydrofiction in a literary classroom. It substantiates storied water as a signifying subject of expressive potential in building a posthuman relationship of care and empathy. This article will attempt to make four contributions: (1) it will describe the concepts of materialist ecocriticism, and new thalassology, and situate the conceptualizations within the broader fields of environmental humanities, (2) it will reinscribe the image of water as a densely plural and a tentacular living organism using Karen Barad’s

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Gondor-Wiercioch, Agnieszka. "Literary Cousins of Reservation Dogs : A Comparative Analysis of Works by Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie." Zeszyty Prasoznawcze 65, no. 4 (252) (2022): 53–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/22996362pz.22.038.16496.

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Literaccy kuzyni „Reservation dogs”: analiza komparatystyczna utworów Louise Erdrich i Shermana Alexie Artykuł przedstawia analizę komparatystyczną współczesnej prozy rdzennych Amerykanów (powieści Love Medicine i The Bingo Palace Louise Erdrich oraz wyboru opowiadań The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Shermana Alexiego) oraz serialu Reservation Dogs Taiki Waititi i Sterlina Harjo. Celem artykułu jest wykazanie podobieństw na poziomie konstrukcji młodych bohaterów w tekstach literackich i dziele filmowym z uwzględnieniem takich kategorii jak dekonstrukcja stereotypów Indian, humor u

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Jones, Daintee Glover. "Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction, and: Mothers and Daughters in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Anthology, and: Is it Really Mommie Dearest? Daughter-Mother Narratives in Young Adult Fiction (review)." NWSA Journal 14, no. 2 (2002): 216–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nwsa.2002.0038.

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Jones, Daintee Glover. "BOOK REVIEW: Hildegard Hoeller. EDITH WHARTON'S DIALOGUE WITH REALISM AND SENTIMENTAL FICTION. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. and Heather Ingman. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A LITERARY ANTHOLOGY. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. and Hilary S. Crew. IS IT REALLY MOMMIE DEAREST? DAUGHTER-MOTHER NARRATIVES IN YOUNG ADULT FICTION. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000." NWSA Journal 14, no. 2 (2002): 216–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/nws.2002.14.2.216.

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Saxena, Vandana. "Magical Worlds, Real Encounters: Race and Magical Realism in Young Adult Fiction." ALAN Review 38, no. 3 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.21061/alan.v38i3.a.6.

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Douglas, Virginie. "The Success and Ambiguity of Young Adult Literature: Merging Literary Modes in Contemporary British Fiction." Publije, no. 1 (April 23, 2018). https://doi.org/10.63723/publije.20181039.

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This paper focuses on novels addressed to that category of older teenagers called “young adults”, a particularly successful category that is traditionally regarded as a subpart of children’s literature and yet terminologically insists on overriding the adult/child divide by blurring the frontier between adulthood and childhood and focusing on the transition from one state to the other. In Britain, YA fiction has developed extensively in the last four decades; this article examines what this literary emergence and evolution has entailed since the beginning of the 21st century, especially from t

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Muela, Bermejo Diana. "Viajes soñados a través de la historia. ¿Dónde has estado, Robert? de Hans Magnus Enzensberger." Ondina/Ondine. Revista de Literatura Comparada Infantil y Juvenil. Investigación en Educación, 2, 64-87., March 14, 2019. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_ondina/ond.201823378.

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Oneiric fiction has been a recurrent topic in children’s and young adult’s literature. Carroll’s model, which is associated to adult literature forms, offered alternative ways to understand human logic through dreams, and it opened up a new world of narrative possibilities, which broke away from moralist realism. Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s novel Where have you been, Robert? can be classified in this tradition. This novel contains seven tales within a story, which includes dream travels, leaps in time, teachings of History and the Arts, and many other components of a bil

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Lecomte, Héloïse. "Chains of Consolation: Ghost-Writing Death’s Tales in Salena Godden’s Mrs Death Misses Death (2021)." Études britanniques contemporaines 66 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/11r4p.

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Salena Godden’s novel Mrs Death Misses Death (2021) brings the principle of ghost-writing to new symbolic grounds as the protagonist, Wolf Willeford, a young writer, turns the memories and diaries of Death herself into memoirs. Part poetical fiction, part song-book, the hybrid work compiles tales of death and mourning together with episodes of Wolf’s existence, thereby mingling legends with accounts of real-life events (such as the Grenfell fire of 2017). The combination of traumatic and magical realism carves a literary language for nested gestures of transmission (from Death to her ghost-wri

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Feisst, Debbie. "And Nothing But the Truth by K. Pearson." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 3, no. 1 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2n31z.

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Pearson, Kit. And Nothing But the Truth. Toronto: Harper Collins, 2012. Print. Victoria, B.C.-based and Governor General Award-winning author Kit Pearson delights yet again with her sequel to 2011’s The Whole Truth, which won the 2012 Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children Award and was previously reviewed in Deakin. Progressing three years since the first book in the ‘duology’, the year is now 1935, and our beloved heroine, Polly, almost thirteen years of age, is being made to move to Victoria to attend the same boarding school that her sister Maud excelled at and enjoye

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Paterson, Amy. "The Last Dragonslayer by J. Fforde." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 1, no. 2 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2f30q.

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Fforde, Jasper. The Last Dragonslayer. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2011. Print. Almost-16-year-old Jennifer Strange is caught in a unique situation. As an orphan and an indentured servant of Kazam Mystical Arts, an employment agency for the magically gifted, Jennifer suddenly finds herself running the agency due to the mysterious disappearance of her boss, Mr. Zambini. Even worse, magical power has been dwindling everywhere and rumors are swirling about the forthcoming death of the last dragon. Accompanied by her faithful Quarkbeast, Jennifer sets out to investigate these strange events, find Mr.

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Campbell, Sandy. "Timber Wolf by C. Pignat." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 1, no. 4 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2mg6b.

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Pignat, Caroline. Timber Wolf. Markham, ON: Red Deer Press, 2011.Print. The first book in this series, Greener Pastures, won a Governor General’s Award in 2009. This volume doesn’t meet that bar. When we enter the world of Timber Wolf, it is through the eyes and person of someone who has woken up in the snow at the bottom of a cliff, not knowing who or where he is. He just knows that he is injured and cold. Readers do not know where the character is in time or space, except that he is in a forest. As the story unfolds, the reader learns more as the protagonist gradually remembers and eventuall

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Beare, Alexander Hudson, and Amy Brierley-Beare. "“You Know There’s No ‘It’ Right? ‘It’ Was Just Us”." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3002.

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In Showtime’s Yellowjackets (2021-present), ‘magic’ (referred to by the characters as “It”) has an overwhelming presence. Supernatural visions, clairvoyance, and occult iconography are laden throughout each episode. However, the audience is often left uncertain if magic is, in fact, ‘real’ or conjured in the imagination of the show’s characters. Yellowjackets follows a women’s high-school soccer team (named the Yellowjackets) who survive a plane crash deep in the North American wilderness. The show explores the team’s struggle for survival and the present adult lives of those who survived. In

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Herb, Annika. "Non-Linear Modes of Narrative in the Disruption of Time and Genre in Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf." M/C Journal 22, no. 6 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1607.

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While Young Adult dystopian texts commonly manipulate expectations of time and space, it is largely in a linear sense—projecting futuristic scenarios, shifting the contemporary reader into a speculative space sometimes only slightly removed from contemporary social, political, or environmental concerns (Booker 3; McDonough and Wagner 157). These concerns are projected into the future, having followed their natural trajectory and come to a dystopian present. Authors write words and worlds of warning in a postapocalyptic landscape, drawing from and confirming established dystopian tropes, and af

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Masson, Sophie Veronique. "Fairy Tale Transformation: The Pied Piper Theme in Australian Fiction." M/C Journal 19, no. 4 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1116.

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The traditional German tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin inhabits an ambiguous narrative borderland, a liminal space between fact and fiction, fantasy and horror, concrete details and elusive mystery. In his study of the Pied Piper in Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature, Wolfgang Mieder describes how manuscripts and other evidence appear to confirm the historical base of the story. Precise details from a fifteenth-century manuscript, based on earlier sources, specify that in 1284 on the 26th of June, the feast-day of Saints John and Paul, 130 children from Hamelin were led away by a pi

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Nairn, Angelique, and Lorna Piatti-Farnell. "The Power of Chaos." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3012.

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In 2019, Netflix released the first season of its highly anticipated show The Witcher. Based on the books of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, the fantasy show tells the intersecting stories of the Witcher Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), the princess of Cintra Ciri (Freya Allan), and sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra), who is commonly referred to as a ‘mage’. Although not as popular among critics as its original book incarnations and adapted game counterparts, the show went on to achieve an 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and was subsequently renewed for more seasons. Althou

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Warner, Kate. "Relationships with the Past: How Australian Television Dramas Talk about Indigenous History." M/C Journal 20, no. 5 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1302.

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In recent years a number of dramas focussing on Indigenous Australians and Australian history have appeared on the ABC, one of Australia's two public television channels. These dramas have different foci but all represent some aspects of Australian Indigenous history and how it interacts with 'mainstream' representations of Australian history. The four programs I will look at are Cleverman (Goalpost Pictures, 2016-ongoing), Glitch (Matchbox Films, 2015-ongoing), The Secret River (Ruby Entertainment, 2015) and Redfern Now (Blackfella Films, 2012), each of which engages with the past in a unique

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Franks, Rachel. "Cooking in the Books: Cookbooks and Cookery in Popular Fiction." M/C Journal 16, no. 3 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.614.

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Introduction Food has always been an essential component of daily life. Today, thinking about food is a much more complicated pursuit than planning the next meal, with food studies scholars devoting their efforts to researching “anything pertaining to food and eating, from how food is grown to when and how it is eaten, to who eats it and with whom, and the nutritional quality” (Duran and MacDonald 234). This is in addition to the work undertaken by an increasingly wide variety of popular culture researchers who explore all aspects of food (Risson and Brien 3): including food advertising, food

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Currie, Susan, and Donna Lee Brien. "Mythbusting Publishing: Questioning the ‘Runaway Popularity’ of Published Biography and Other Life Writing." M/C Journal 11, no. 4 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.43.

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Introduction: Our current obsession with the lives of others “Biography—that is to say, our creative and non-fictional output devoted to recording and interpreting real lives—has enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance in recent years,” writes Nigel Hamilton in Biography: A Brief History (1). Ian Donaldson agrees that biography is back in fashion: “Once neglected within the academy and relegated to the dustier recesses of public bookstores, biography has made a notable return over recent years, emerging, somewhat surprisingly, as a new cultural phenomenon, and a new academic adventure” (23). For

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Rattray, Chloe T., and Katie Ellis. ""I Love Every Part of You"." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2997.

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Introduction The Owl House is an animated television series that aired on the Disney Channel from 2020 to 2023. The series follows Luz, a teenage Dominican-American human who finds a portal to the Demon Realm. She lands on the Boiling Isles, an island archipelago populated with magical creatures. There, Luz befriends a middle-aged witch named Edalyn “Eda” Clawthorne (also known as Eda the Owl Lady), and her housemate/adoptive son King, a cute dog-like demon with a skull for a head. Eda agrees to teach Luz magic. Magic is then used as a narrative prosthesis (McReynolds) to explore themes of inc

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Altiok, Revna. "Unveiling Ken." M/C Journal 27, no. 3 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3067.

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Introduction "Barbie has a great day every day, but Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him", states the narrator in Barbie (2023). Directed by Greta Gerwig, the film not only claimed the title of the highest-grossing film of the year but also prompted its audience to reconsider a character they had previously mostly overlooked; another one of Barbie’s many accessories: Ken. Ken's identity as Barbie's companion is fundamentally dependent upon the presence and recognition of his more prominent female counterpart. This highlights Ken's secondary role, where he serves as a supporting figu

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Brien, Donna Lee. "The Real Filth in American Psycho." M/C Journal 9, no. 5 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2657.

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   1991 An afternoon in late 1991 found me on a Sydney bus reading Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991). A disembarking passenger paused at my side and, as I glanced up, hissed, ‘I don’t know how you can read that filth’. As she continued to make her way to the front of the vehicle, I was as stunned as if she had struck me physically. There was real vehemence in both her words and how they were delivered, and I can still see her eyes squeezing into slits as she hesitated while curling her mouth around that final angry word: ‘filth’. Now, almost fifteen years later, the

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Döring, Nicola, and Dan J. Miller. "Conceptual Overview (Portrayals of Sexuality in Pornography)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, October 24, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/5k.

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Pornography is neither a documentary media genre that documents what real sex in everyday life looks like, nor is it a pedagogical or moral media genre aimed at showing what ideal sex (in terms of health or morality) should look like. Instead, pornography is a fictional media genre that depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies and sexual activities for the purpose of sexual arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding media ethics and media effects, pornography has traditionally been viewed as highly problematic. Pornographic material has been accused of portray

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