Georgia White Georgia White i(20034289 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Book Reviews : The Modern, Premonition, Gunflower Rosie Ofori Ward , Annie Yoshida , Georgia White , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2023;

— Review of The Modern Anna Kate Blair , 2023 single work novel ; Gunflower : Stories Laura Jean McKay , 2023 selected work short story
Also reviews The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
1 Getting Sad or Getting Mad : Three New Novels Exploring Women’s Suffering Georgia White , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 445 2022; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Blue Hour Sarah Schmidt , 2022 single work novel ; Bone Memories Sally Piper , 2022 single work novel ; Sunbathing : A Novel Isobel Beech , 2022 single work novel
1 Ceasefire Georgia White , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: New Australian Fiction 2021 2021; (p. 165-179)
1 y separately published work icon Verge 2021 : Home Jessica Phillips (editor), Anders Villani (editor), Georgia White (editor), Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2021 22018406 2021 anthology poetry short story

'The death of a bird haunts the relationship between two siblings. A lonely narrator waits for a bus that never comes. A boy makes soup with his grandmother and wonders about the memories she has buried.

'For the sixteenth edition of Verge, we asked contributors to reflect on the theme of Home, a word that took on a new meaning after a year of solitude and separation. We chose this theme because we hoped to read about homes of all kinds: unhomely homes, abandoned homes, unlikely homes, forgotten homes, found homes. And we were awed by the beauty, depth and variety in the pieces we received. Our writers explored homes of past, present and future; they probed the bleakness of domesticity and mourned the loss of what was once held close. They wrote about familial ties and found communities, about the painfulness of childhood and the bonds of ancestry. Writing, indeed, to make a home in.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 Houses of Unreason : A Triptych of Gothic Novels Georgia White , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 432 2021; (p. 40-41)

— Review of The Serpent's Skin Erina Reddan , 2021 single work novel ; Other People's Houses Kelli Hawkins , 2021 single work novel ; Sargasso Kathy George , 2021 single work novel

'Is it tautological to describe a work of fiction as ‘family Gothic’? After all, there’s nothing more inherently Gothic than the family politic: a hierarchical structure ruled by a patriarch, as intolerant of transgression as it is fascinated by it, sustaining itself through a clear us/them divide, all the while proclaiming, ‘The blood is the life.’ Yet three new Australian novels Gothicise the family politic by exaggerating, each to the point of melodrama, just how dangerous a family can become when its constituents turn against one another.' (Introduction)

1 Violent Hearts : An Australian Fairy Tale Georgia White , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 426 2020; (p. 31)

— Review of Flyaway Kathleen Jennings , 2020 single work novella

'At the heart of every fairy tale, there is violence: Snow White’s stepmother calling for her heart on a platter, Cinderella’s sisters mutilating their feet to fit the silver shoe. ‘All the better to eat you with, my dear,’ says the wolf, his belly already stuffed with grandmother’s flesh. From this bloodletting, the fairy tale tries to spin something wondrous, turning straw into gold and men into beasts.' (Introduction)

1 Our Octopuses, Ourselves Georgia White , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , September 2020;

'There are many qualities to the octopus that render it strange, or weird, to a human mind: its cold, slippery body. Its excess of creepy tentacles. Its dissonant, almost chimerical structure. Its aloof intelligence. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, science fiction and horror writers fixed upon the figure of the octopus as the ultimate expression of eldritch dread. Cthulhu sprouted from the hallucinatory imagination of HP Lovecraft, and attacks by giant cephalopods became a staple of the maritime adventure novel. In an essay on the teratology of Weird horror, novelist and literary critic China Mièville links the historical emergence of the genre, around about the fin-de-siècle, to a growing sense of nihilism in the face of an oncoming crisis. To the writers of the Weird, writes Mièville, this formless being with an inexplicable surfeit of limbs was a reflection of the  ‘chaotic, amoral, [and] anthropoperipheral universe’ they found themselves in.' (Introduction)

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