"White Flu"

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Title"White Flu"
Year for Search2020
AuthorsSakr, Omar
Secondary AuthorsAhmad, Michael Mohammed
Secondary TitleAfter Australia
Pagination53-75
Date Published2020
PublisherAffirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement
Place PublishedSouth Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN Number9781925972818
KeywordsAustralian author, Male author
Annotation

The story takes place in a future Australia in which a deadly pandemic only white people. The protagonist is a queer Arab Australian who mostly concerned with the conflicts within his extended family, most of whom shun him.

Info Notes

The book includes a “Prologue Black Thoughts: Unreconciliatory Futures” (1-7), Interludes “Black Thoughts: Miscegenation” (77-85) and “Black Thoughts: Horses and Mules” (159-163), and an Epilogue “Black Thoughts: Pemulwuy” (251-257) by Hannah Donnelly, a Wiradjuri writer who is Curator of Aboriginal Programs at Carriageworks, and an Afterword “A Timeline to 2050” (259-265) by Linda Nahlous, Executive Director, Diversity Arts Australia.

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The author was born, raised, and lives in West Sydney, identifies as Arab Australian, and is well-known, prize-winning poet.
Full Text

2020 Sakr, Omar. “White Flu.” After Australia. Ed. Michael Mohammed Ahmad (South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement, 2020), 53-75. The book includes a “Prologue Black Thoughts: Unreconciliatory Futures” (1-7), Interludes “Black Thoughts: Miscegenation” (77-85) and “Black Thoughts: Horses and Mules” (159-163), and an Epilogue “Black Thoughts: Pemulwuy” (251-257) by Hannah Donnelly, a Wiradjuri writer who is Curator of Aboriginal Programs at Carriageworks, and an Afterword “A Timeline to 2050” (259-265) by Linda Nahlous, Executive Director, Diversity Arts Australia. PSt  

The story takes place in a future Australia in which a deadly pandemic only white people. The protagonist is a queer Arab Australian who mostly concerned with the conflicts within his extended family, most of whom shun him. The author was born, raised, and lives in West Sydney, identifies as Arab Australian, and is well-known, prize-winning poet.