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Margin/Periphery/Threshold:
Contemporary Short Fiction and the Migrant Experience

Millner, Carol Elizabeth

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Open access

Authors

Millner, Carol Elizabeth

Date

2021

Supervisor

Deborah Hunn

Marilyn Metta

Type

Thesis

Award

PhD

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Faculty

Humanities

School

School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86931

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

Carol Millner’s PhD is a collection of seventeen interlinked short stories with an accompanying exegesis. The two components of the PhD answer the research question: How might a migrant writer employ the short story to explore the complexity of migrant experience in Australia? The stories represent diverse migrant voices within a loose structure informed by notions of historiographic metafiction and autofiction. The exegesis considers selected works by Mena Abdullah, Elizabeth Jolley and Nam Le.