Penny Edmonds Penny Edmonds i(15401297 works by)
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1 The Bunyip as Uncanny Rupture : Fabulous Animals, Innocuous Quadrupeds and the Australian Anthropocene Penny Edmonds , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 63 2018; (p. 80-98)

'My love affair with museums began when I was seven. I saw a bunyip’s head in a glass case, a strange, unsettling creature with a one-eyed blind stare, a cycloptic monster. I was small and I stood up on my toes to see the creature through the glass. On show, the bunyip was mounted in a tall, ornate nineteenth-century wooden cabinet. The typed paper label gave scientific verification: ‘A bunyip’s head, New South Wales. 1841.’ I recall the palpable shock of it, and my mixed childhood emotions: bunyips were real. With its long jawbone wrapped in fawn-coloured fur, it was a decapitated Australian swamp-dweller preserved.  Yet, the horrific creature looked so sad, and with its sightless eye, gaping mouth and cartoonish backward drooping ears. It was a creature of pathos—a gormless, goofy redhead, a ranga, a total outsider.' (Introduction)

1 The Aesthetic of Dark Mofo : Emotion, Darkness and the Tasmanian Gothic Alicia Marchant , Penny Edmonds , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Histories of Emotion from Medieval Europe to Contemporary Australia , July 2015;
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