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Baggage
by
Gillian Polack (Goodreads Author) ,
Janeen Webb, Lucy Sussex, Jennifer Fallon, Laura E. Goodin, Maxine McArthur, Deborah Biancotti (Goodreads Author), Tessa Kum
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Pick up some Baggage.
Humankind carries the past as invisible baggage. Thirteen brilliant writers explore this, looking at Australia's cultural baggage through new and often disturbing eyes.
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Baggage explores layers and complexities that are oddly Australian. If you think Australian culture is all about neighbours and mateship, you may find Baggage distressing.
What...more
Humankind carries the past as invisible baggage. Thirteen brilliant writers explore this, looking at Australia's cultural baggage through new and often disturbing eyes.
Go On …
Baggage explores layers and complexities that are oddly Australian. If you think Australian culture is all about neighbours and mateship, you may find Baggage distressing.
What...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
September 2010
by Eneit Press
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13 authors gathered to map the zeitgeist of a country, words bending reality in an effort to show the world through multicultural lenses. Such search for the ethos, the collective culture of a people, is the raison d'etre of Baggage, Gillian Polack's newest anthology, released late 2010 by Eneit Press.
Each and all of the authors were given free reign to discuss the process which had made Australia the place it is, and what it really means to be australian. Mapping out the cultural heritage of a...more
Each and all of the authors were given free reign to discuss the process which had made Australia the place it is, and what it really means to be australian. Mapping out the cultural heritage of a...more
4.5 stars.
Beautiful, beautiful anthology of short stories with an sff element to each. Highly recommended. I particularly enjoyed the stories by Kaaron Warren, Lucy Sussex and Jennifer Fallon, but they were all good - occasionally harrowing, maybe, but also courageous, quirky and fun in many instances.
What does it mean to be an Australian, or a New Zealander? There are no easy answers presented in this anthology, just a refreshingly unique take on themes of displacement and belonging.
Beautiful, beautiful anthology of short stories with an sff element to each. Highly recommended. I particularly enjoyed the stories by Kaaron Warren, Lucy Sussex and Jennifer Fallon, but they were all good - occasionally harrowing, maybe, but also courageous, quirky and fun in many instances.
What does it mean to be an Australian, or a New Zealander? There are no easy answers presented in this anthology, just a refreshingly unique take on themes of displacement and belonging.
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Gillian is a writer and historian, currently living in Canberra, Australia. She intends to count the books in her library soon, when they stop falling on her and otherwise intimidating her.
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