The Memory Library
The Memory Library
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1-101Location
Sydney, NSW.Open access
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9780648398868Language
engResearch statement
Background Fictional novellas are less common in Australian publishing, although the economy, accessibility and poetic potential of this form make it ripe for original creative research into speculative modes that explore time, aesthetics, uncertainty and shifting subjectivities. Literary novellas thus can test ways of rendering how futures might feel in everyday settings, how future humans will be recognisable/different to themselves, how categories like gender, nation, family will change, how modes of love will prevail after shared catastrophe to supplement sociological, scientific and political research on stability, plasticity, invention and connection. Contribution This work actualises new methods in experimental clifi/speculative fiction with parallel monologues of two nonbinary characters, dual 1st person voices pacing its plot. Its tight focalisation renders existential nuance via otherworldly sensibility/lexicon. Poetic prose disrupts common dystopic world-building showing human modes of ad hoc creative coping, post upheaval. Addressing human foible, loss and social alienation, it explores love-as-decision. Dramatizing therapeutic, addictive and philosophical faces of memory, it stages technology’s impact on recollection, forgetting and invention, depicting new shapes of problem solving and communal meaning-making. Significance Selected for publication by Spineless Wonders Publishing in their inaugural Espresso Series, this work then prompted multi-media works in a dual exhibition/launch at Run Artist Run Gallery. It participated in the competitive Melbourne’s International Film Festival, 37 degrees South Market. It extends the author’s existing research on temporality, weather, poetic form and memory, disseminating complex ideas in an accessible form for mainstream readers. It adds to a still slim body of literary works with nonbinary characters, thus diversifying gender depiction in accessible experimental fiction. Author invited to judge new Australasian novella prize with AAWP.Publication classification
JO3 Original Creative Works – Textual WorkPublisher
Spineless WondersPlace of publication
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