Table of Contents

CONTENTS: In Search of the Australian Fantastic – The Fantastic as a Terminological Trickster – The Postcolonial Turn and the Fantastic – Below the Line: A SF Novel of (Double) Invasion – «Water»: The SF Alien as a Metaphor for Culture – Land of the Golden Clouds: An Epic Space of Science Fantasy and Fantastika – The Kadaitcha Sung: Towards Native Slipstream – The Swan Book: Into Transrealist Fiction – The Future Arrives.

About the Author

Iva Polak is Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She has lectured on Australian Aboriginal literature in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Australia and Japan and has published widely in the field, including a monograph on the development of Australian Aboriginal fiction (2011). She has received two Endeavour Research Fellowships (Curtin University, WA, 2006; University of Adelaide, SA, 2014). Her current interests include new developments in the fantastic and humour studies.