Starrs, Bruno

Contributions

• Writing Indigenous Vampires: Aboriginal Gothic or Aboriginal Fantastic?
  Articles
  The usual postmodern suspicions about diligently deciphering authorial intent or stridently seeking fixed meaning/s and/or binary distinctions in an artistic work aside, this self-indulgent essay pushes the boundaries regarding normative academic research, for it focusses on my own (minimally celebrated) published creative writing’s status as a literary innovation. Dedicated to illuminating...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 17 No. 4 (2014): gothic
• Hyperlinking History and Illegitimate Imagination: The Historiographic Metafictional E-novel
  Articles
  ‘Historiographic Metafiction’ (HM) is a literary term first coined by creative writing academic Linda Hutcheon in 1988, and which refers to the postmodern practice of a fiction author inserting imagined--or illegitimate--characters into narratives that are intended to be received as authentic and historically accurate, that is, ostensibly legitimate. Such adventurous and bold...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 17 No. 5 (2014): illegitimate