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Tag: queer fiction

on the monkey’s face, a monkey’s mask

In her genre-bending 1994 text, The Monkey’s Mask, Australian poet Dorothy Porter blurs the boundaries between novel and verse, constructing a taut erotic thriller that subverts our expectations of the constituents of noir fiction.

Published July 20, 2021
Categorized as literature Tagged Australian literature, crime fiction, dorothy porter, feminism, hard-boiled, literature, noir, queer fiction, the monkey's mask, thriller

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