Discover Anglina with author Emma Stein
Today, I welcome author Emma Stein who tells us more about how she created the country of Anglina for her novel, Into the Void , released through Tirgearr Publishing, and what locations she based it on. Welcome, Emma... I created the different places Horace visits using some of the cultural theories I studied as a graduate student in Art History and my experiences as a non-EU immigrant in Europe. For example, the society of the very first place Horace visits--and the site of the first catastrophe during his voyage--is based on Marcel Mauss's theories on gift-giving. I had always intended on setting this section of the book on islands because I wanted Horace to travel by ship at the beginning of his journey, but it was only after some friends showed me photographs from their recent trip to Cuba that I decided the islands would be tropical. The other locations are based on or parody places I have actually lived or places very close to where I lived, and this is reflec...