Marianne’s work has been the subject of significant scholarly interrogation. Click the images to link to the essays and books. You can also find Marianne at academia.edu
| Vijayasekaran, P. and G. Alan. ‘A Postcolonial Psychoanalytic Study of Indigenous Futurism in Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf and Marianne De Pierres’ Nylon Angel.’ Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 1231-1236, April 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1404.30School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. |
| Boshoff, Dorothea. Fragile Spaces: Situated Knowledges in Orion’s Academia Feminist Encounters. Volume 7, Issue 2, Autumn 2023. |
| Byrne, Deidre. ‘Is there a Woman in this Space Opera?” A Gender Analysis of the Aliens of Orion.’ 2021. Directory of Open Access Journals. |
| Aliaga-Lavrijsen, J. ‘Pregnancy, Childbirth and Nursing in Feminist Dystopia: Marianne de Pierres’s Transformation Space (2010)’. Humanities 2020, 9, 58. |
| Boshoff, Dorothea. ‘The Aliens of Orion.’ Conference paper. |
| Boshoff, Dorothea. ‘Becoming Alien(ated): A case study examining intimacy and loneliness in selected works by Marianne de Pierres.’ University of Mpumalanga. Dedalus 24 (2020), pp. 163-176. Download PDF |
| Boshoff, Dorothea, ‘Situated Knowledges – love in the time of patriarchy: lack of positive intimacy in Marianne de Pierres’ The Sentients of Orion.’ International Society for the Study of Gender and Love. Conference paper, 2020 |
| Boshoff, Dorothea and Deidre Byrne. ‘He Said, She Said: #Fake News and #MeToo in Marianne de Pierres’ Sentients of Orion.’ Messenger from the Stars Journal: On Science Fiction and Fantasy. No. 4 (2019): 88- 102. Guest Eds.: Danièle André & Cristophe Becker. |
| Turcotte, Gerry. ‘The Caribbean Gothic Down Under: Caribbean Influences in Marianne de Pierres’ Parrish Plessis Novels.’ Caietele Echinox. 35. 237-243. 10.24193/cechinox.2018.35.15. 2018N.B. Turcotte’s paper on Parrish Plessis is referenced in TWITCH GOTHIC: An Exploration of the Female Protagonist in Contemporary Australian Gothic Short Fiction by Yvette Rochelle Harvey. |
| Boshoff, Dorothea. ‘Crafting Positions: Representations of Intimacy and Gender in The Sentients of Orion.’ PhD. University of South Africa, 2017 |
| Weaver, Roslyn. ‘The End of Human: apocalypse, cyberpunk and the Parrish Plessis novels.’ Apocalypse in Australian Film and Fiction: a critical study. Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy; 28, McFarland Press, 2011 |
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