Antipodes Volume 28, Number 2 (December 2014)
The official publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, Antipodes is published in June and December of each year. The journal welcomes critical essays on any aspect of Australian and New Zealand literature and culture, and comparative studies are especially encouraged. Additionally, Antipodes publishes short fiction, excerpts from novels, drama, and poetry written by Australian and New Zealand authors.
The official publication of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, Antipodes is published in June and December of each year. The journal welcomes critical essays on any aspect of Australian and New Zealand literature and culture, and comparative studies are especially encouraged. Additionally, Antipodes publishes short fiction, excerpts from novels, drama, and poetry written by Australian and New Zealand authors.
From the Editors
Naming the Nation: A Poetic Retrospect
Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore, and Sarah Shieff
Herbert C. Jaffa, 1920–2013: A Sheaf of Remembrances
Poetry
I Am Starting With Your Wrists
Anna Ryan-Punch
circumnavigation . . .
Iain Britton
Exhibition
Kristin Hannaford
Primer
Carol Jenkins
The Lover's Companion Guide to Verbs
Marjon Mossammaparast
Winter beach, Scotland
Virginia Jealous
New Fruit
Corey Wakeling
Red Shed Shrine
John Kinsella
A Notable Colonial Fistfight: Edward "Ned" Kelly vs. I saiah "Wild" Wright, Beechworth, Victoria, August 8th, 1874
Kevin Densley
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Jordie Albiston
Will Summer Arrive
Bev Braune
An observation of love in the fifties
Elizabeth Smither
Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
The Horns
Tom Coverdale
Prickly Pear Conversation
Elizabeth Bernays
The Water Carrier: a Report
John Kinsella
At the All-Night Driving Range
Aaron Peysack
Supra-text Space-time
Bev Braune
Supra-text-beautiful Field
Bev Braune
Reading with Daddy
Mark O'Flynn
Essays
Morality at Bay: The Lesson of the Americas in Murray Bail's Homesickness
Michael Ackland
Branded by Fire: Postcolonial Naming in S hirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire
Christine De Vinne
Victims and Victimizers in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys
Jane Nardin
Returned Soldiers in Owls Do Cry, A State of Siege, and The Carpathians: Janet Frame’s Subversive Representations
Cyrena Mazlin
Complexity of Thought and Clarity of Expression: The Poetry of Suzanne Edgar
John Beston
Where To?: An Indian Perspective on Australian Aboriginal Poetry in English
Angshuman Kar
Beyond Home and into the World: Family in the Short Stories of the South Asian Diaspora in Australia
Amit Sarwal
Iranian Exilic Poetry in Australia: Reinventing the Third Space
Laetitia Nanquette
Our Ned: The Makeup of Myth
Dorothy Simmons
Michael Wilding’s Texas Story
Don Graham
The Complex Politics and Rhetoric of John Marsden’s “Tomorrow” Series
Theodore Sheckels
Spies in the Shadows: Intelligence and Secret Agents in the Novels of Christopher Koch
Fiona Duthie
Departments
About the Cover
In Memoriam
Interview — “Poetry Is a High-Energy Sport”: An Interview with Suzanne Edgar
John Beston
Interview — Literary Translations: From Novel to Film, from Australia to Europe (An interview with film producer Emile Sherman and scriptwriter Louise Fox)
Lynda Ng
Notes and Queries — Günter Grass’s Blechtrommel and Patrick White’s Solid Mandala
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Notes and Queries — Hugo, Goethe, and Patrick White: Sources for The Eye of the Storm and The Vivisector
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors
Book Reviews
Fiction
Alexis Wright, The Swan Book
Katherine Mulcrone
Tim Winton, Eyrie
Eric Notaro
Roger McDonald, The Following
Paul Plisiewicz
Jonathan Bennett, The Colonial Hotel
Danny Dyer
Louis Arnand, Cairo
Jennifer Popa
Angela Meyer, ed., The Great Unknown
Sally Rafson
Poetry
Nandi Chinna, Swamp: Walking the Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain
Carolyn Stice
Stephen Oliver, Intercolonial
Nicholas Reid
Memoir
Anita Heiss, Am I Black Enough for You?
Kate Quick
Criticism
Leigh Dale and Tanya Dalziell, eds., The English Issue. Australian Literary Studies 28.1–2
John Scheckter