Look Who's Morphing

Look Who's Morphing
Author: Tom Cho
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1551525399

First published to acclaim in Australia, Look Who's Morphing by Asian Australian writer Tom Cho is a funny, fantastical, often outlandish collection of stories firmly grounded in popular culture. Often with his family, the book's central character undergoes a series of startling physical transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music and books, porn flicks and comics. He is Godzilla, a Muppet, a gay white male stud, and Whitney Houston's bodyguard; the Fonz, a robot, the von Trapp family's caretaker, a Ford Bronco 4x4—and in the book's lavish climax, a one-hundred-foot-tall guitar-wielding rock star performing for an adoring troupe of fans in Tokyo. Throughout the stories, there is a pervasive questioning of the nature of identity, whether cultural, racial, sexual, gender, or all of the above, and the way it is constructed in a world filled with the white noise of pop culture. Look Who's Morphing is a stylish, highly entertaining literary debut in which nothing—not even one's body—can be taken for granted. Tom Cho is a trans writer who began writing fiction in his mid teens in Australia, where he was influenced by the YA series Sweet Valley High. His stories have appeared in publications in Australia and elsewhere, and he has performed at events and festivals around the world, including in the award-winning show Hello Kitty, which combines literature with power ballads. Look Who's Morphing is his first book.

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
Author: Nicholas Birns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009099507

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.

Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945

Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004363246

This study analyses how immigrant and ethnic-minority writers have challenged the understanding of certain national literatures and have markedly changed them. In other national contexts, ideologies and institutions have contained the challenge these writers pose to national literatures. Case studies of the emergence and recognition of immigrant and ethnic-minority writing come from fourteen national contexts. These include classical immigration countries, such as Canada and the United States, countries where immigration accelerated and entered public debate after World War II, such as the United Kingdom, France and Germany, as well as countries rarely discussed in this context, such as Brazil and Japan. Finally, this study uses these individual analyses to discuss this writing as an international phenomenon. Sandra R.G. Almeida, Maria Zilda F. Cury, Sarah De Mul, Sneja Gunew, Dave Gunning, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Martina Kamm, Liesbeth Minnaard, Maria Oikonomou, Wenche Ommundsen, Marie Orton, Laura Reeck, Daniel Rothenbühler, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Wiebke Sievers, Bettina Spoerri, Christl Verduyn, Sandra Vlasta.

The Best Australian Stories

The Best Australian Stories
Author: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459624874

The best of the best This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcas...

Westerly

Westerly
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2012
Genre: Literature, Modern
ISBN:

Morphing Magic

Morphing Magic
Author: Scott Anderson
Publisher: Sams
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1993
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780672303203

In the past few years morphing, a new computer graphics technique, has been gaining popularity. This book begins by outlining the background of morphing. It then gives a detailed description of techniques being used for morphing, followed by a chapter outlining how to implement each of the techniques. In the final section of the book, readers will find pointers on where to find more information. (Desktop Publishing)

Morphing on Your PC

Morphing on Your PC
Author: David Keith Mason
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1994
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Anyone can turn their PC into a morphing machine with this exciting program and tutorial handbook. The book begins with an easy-to-follow introduction and tutorial, offers tips and tricks, and provides a handy reference for understanding the various tools. The enclosed disks contain 50 ready-to-run examples, plus everything needed to create new morphing sequences on any PC.

Film Review

Film Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2003
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN:

Glamour

Glamour
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2007
Genre: Beauty, Personal
ISBN: