The Nuclear Uncanny in Oceania

Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2018

“…Our 2018 listings evince a continuing creative and critical engagement with genre and genre fiction, specifically settler realism (Dalley, 2018); utopia (Mills, 2018); pulp fiction and spy fiction (Rahman, 2018); noir (Augart, 2018; Abani, 2018); fantasy (Yu, 2018); speculative fiction (Tidhar, 2018); the Gothic (Duncan, 2018); the medical thriller (Chellam, 2018) and detective fiction (Massey, 2018). The environment and animals also figure prominently, with explorations of the nuclear uncanny (Hurley, 2018); the Anthropocene (Major, 2018) or ecocritical time (Huebener, 2018) and of the Sri Lankan crow (Jayawardena, 2018) and elephants, dogs and crocodiles in South African literature (Wylie, 2018; Woodward, 2018; Ericson, 2018).…”