This paper addresses the nature of Australian and Asian identity through an examination of the novel, The World Waiting to be Made, by Simone Lazaroo, the story of a young woman born in Singapore of Malaccan heritage but growing up in Perth, Western Australia. Acutely aware of the Asianness which sets her apart from mainstream Australians, the unnamed narrator in this first person novel struggl...

On the speech side of the bridge is the visual material within each panel. Indeed, the absence of an immediate contextual envelop is a primary factor distinguishing writing from speech. In comic books, however, each illustration supplies a visual context through which the reader easily enters the instantial world. She/He sees characters operating within their world, characters who in turn see a...

This paper examines the various representations of magical realism in Rawi Hage’s Carnival (2012). It investigates portrayal fictionalized imaginative situations novel. Further, it discusses Fly as an exilic individual who attempts to escape his chaotic and disordered society. Through flying carpet, overcomes hardship produces a new space for own order realize what he desires. Besides, among se...