A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Margarete Rubik: 9789042022126.
As is typical of the cli-fi genre, McConnochie explores current-world issues within her adventure. Climate refugees and strict immigration laws have created a permanent underclass and a human trafficking problem, which privileged Essie begins to understand when the adventurers are joined by a starving former slave boy. Racial descriptors are.The cult of strength and courage that prevails in these groups is associated with the specific means used to achieve the objectives. Without support of these values regular use of violence, which is one of the major funds, is not possible (McConnochie, 2008). At the same time, organized crime groups tend not to use violence if that does not.New versions in turn refer to and revise older rewritings or take up suggestions from Bronte scholarship, creating a dense intertextual web. The essays collected in this volume do justice to the variety of media involved in the Jane Eyre reworkings, by covering narrative, visual and stage adaptations, including an adaptor's perspective.
The East and Southeast Asian region is of immense economic, strategic and cultural significance to Australia. It has also been important in defining Australia's national identity, and is the origin of many of Australia's immigrants.But though they are both experienced sailors, they have no idea what dangers the sea has in store for them. With The Flooded Earth, Mardi McConnochie opens her middle-grade cli-fi saga at top speed, drawing readers into a race against pirates, authorities, and the sea itself in a not-so-distant future full of new technology and old human failings.
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