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'A lost kingdom is found in a hidden oasis of forest in the outback. Its strange animal human inhabitants are the products of miscegenation between a lost Aboriginal tribe and kangaroos.'
Source: Seed, David. A Companion to Science Fiction. Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
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Constructing a Postcolonial Zone : The Example of Australia
2013
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criticism
— Appears in: Stories about Stories : Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth 2013;'In Australia, where the oppression of native peoples and cultures was, if anything, even more severe than in North America, it has been harder to create contact zones, and, as discussed in chapter 5, attempts by white writers such as Patricia Wrightson to blend their traditions with those of indigenous Australians have been met with suspicion or hostility. Non-Aboriginal writers from Australia have generated such a collection of ignorant, patronizing, and demeaning texts about Aborigines that some of the latter want to call a halt to any further attempts. As the novelist Melissa Lucashenko says, "Who asked you to write about Aboriginal people? If it wasn't Aboriginal people themselves, I suggest you go away and look at your own lives instead of ours. We are tired of being the freak show of Australian popular culture" (quoted in Heiss 10). Whereas American writers often treated native cultures as noble, if doomed, and Indian characters as heroic adversaries or guides to the white hero (as in James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking series), early depictions of Aboriginal people at best treat them as part of the landscape and at worst—and there is a pretty clear worst in Austyn Granville lost-world romance The Fallen Race (1892)—as subhuman.' (Introduction)
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Lost and Found Cities and People : In Australia
2001
single work
review
bibliography
biography
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 96-100)
— Review of The Lost Explorer : An Australian Story 1890 single work novel ; The Savage Queen : A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Idol : A Tale of Adventures in Australia and New Zealand 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Lake, or, The Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia 1890 single work novel ; The Valley Council; Or, Leaves from the Journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego Station, N.S.W. 1891 single work novel ; The Secret of the Australian Desert 1890 single work children's fiction ; The Fallen Race 1892 single work novel ; Mostyn Stayne 1897 single work novel ; Marooned on Australia : Being the Narration by Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits in Terra Australis Incognita about the Year 1630 1896 single work children's fiction ; Adventure of the Broad Arrow : An Australian Romance. 1897 single work novel ; An Australian Bush Track 1896 single work novel ; The Treasure Cave of the Blue Mountains 1898 single work children's fiction ; The Last Lemurian : A Westralian Romance 1896 single work novel ; Eureka 1899 single work novel
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Lost and Found Cities and People : In Australia
2001
single work
review
bibliography
biography
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 96-100)
— Review of The Lost Explorer : An Australian Story 1890 single work novel ; The Savage Queen : A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Idol : A Tale of Adventures in Australia and New Zealand 1891 single work novel ; The Golden Lake, or, The Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia 1890 single work novel ; The Valley Council; Or, Leaves from the Journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego Station, N.S.W. 1891 single work novel ; The Secret of the Australian Desert 1890 single work children's fiction ; The Fallen Race 1892 single work novel ; Mostyn Stayne 1897 single work novel ; Marooned on Australia : Being the Narration by Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits in Terra Australis Incognita about the Year 1630 1896 single work children's fiction ; Adventure of the Broad Arrow : An Australian Romance. 1897 single work novel ; An Australian Bush Track 1896 single work novel ; The Treasure Cave of the Blue Mountains 1898 single work children's fiction ; The Last Lemurian : A Westralian Romance 1896 single work novel ; Eureka 1899 single work novel -
Constructing a Postcolonial Zone : The Example of Australia
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Stories about Stories : Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth 2013;'In Australia, where the oppression of native peoples and cultures was, if anything, even more severe than in North America, it has been harder to create contact zones, and, as discussed in chapter 5, attempts by white writers such as Patricia Wrightson to blend their traditions with those of indigenous Australians have been met with suspicion or hostility. Non-Aboriginal writers from Australia have generated such a collection of ignorant, patronizing, and demeaning texts about Aborigines that some of the latter want to call a halt to any further attempts. As the novelist Melissa Lucashenko says, "Who asked you to write about Aboriginal people? If it wasn't Aboriginal people themselves, I suggest you go away and look at your own lives instead of ours. We are tired of being the freak show of Australian popular culture" (quoted in Heiss 10). Whereas American writers often treated native cultures as noble, if doomed, and Indian characters as heroic adversaries or guides to the white hero (as in James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking series), early depictions of Aboriginal people at best treat them as part of the landscape and at worst—and there is a pretty clear worst in Austyn Granville lost-world romance The Fallen Race (1892)—as subhuman.' (Introduction)
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