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'With an analysis of Tracy Sorensen's The Lucky Galah (2018), I ask how we can respect and acknowledge Aboriginal ownership and sovereignty without appropriation, exoticization, or trivialization. I suggest that Sorensen does this in her novel by imagining the unknowable voice of an animal. The novel uses the viewpoint of a galah and the story of an Aboriginal woman who adopts her. Using Gerald Vizenor's idea of survivance, I discuss how animal voices offer a way to "walk with" other people and species through the devices of speculative fiction, continuing my work with science fiction that imagines ways of exchanging an acknowledgment of mutual personhood without perfect understanding of either one by the other, employing what I call the amborg gaze.'  (Publication abstract)

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    In writing about the Moon Landing and the tracking stations that helped make it happen—the ultimate tale of flight and masculine derring-do, unavailable to women or Aboriginal people or galahs—I wanted to capture more of what was "really going on" or perhaps "also going on." —Tracy Sorensen

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    y separately published work icon Antipodes vol. 36 no. 2 2022 29272342 2022 periodical issue 'As an academic, one of my go-to phrases has long been John Steinbeck’s adaptation of Burns’s phrase “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” And so it goes with this issue of Antipodes, which has slid our publication backward a bit. As a result, the time is “out of joint” in this issue (December 2022), which features the winning entries from the 2023 Creative Writing Competition sponsored by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) and supported by the American Australian Association (AAA). Even so, the publication of these impressive works is delayed. We hope you will enjoy them now.' 

     (Editorial Introduction)

         2022     pg. 295-305
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