Antipodes Volume 30, Number 2 (December 2016)
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.
Table of Contents
Poetry
Deb Adamson — On Rocky Crossing
Frances Rouse — Lifting Meringue
Peter Bakowski — Suggestion Box
Donata Carrazza — The Work
Kathryn Fry — Under the Old Tangle
E. A. Gleeson — Poetic Perspective
Cassandra J. O’Loughlin — Driving Inland
Lisa Gorton — Empirical III
Vanessa Kirkpatrick — Each Stitch
Mark Mahemoff — Morning Triptych
Michael Thorley — Recital
Andrew Sant — The Great Ocean Road
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Carmel Bird — The Matter of the Mosque
Patrick West — Doorknocking
Antony Millen — Fishing the Pungapunga
Essays
Brigitta Olubas — The Event of Hiroshima in Australian Literature
Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas — New Zealand or Nowheresville: Nation and Community in Janet Frame’s Living in the Maniototo
Daniel Hempel — “This Fantastic Land of Monstrosities”: The Aesthetic of the Australian Grotesque in the Long Nineteenth Century
Shyamasri Maji — Re-viewing the Anglo-Indian Self in Multicultural Australia: A Critical Study of David McMahon’s Vegemite Vindaloo
Adelle L. Sefton-Rowston — Hope at the End of the World: Creation Stories and Apocalypse in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and The Swan Book
Daniel Brennan — Erik Jensen’s Adam Cullen: Art’s Confrontation with the Law
Xu Daozhi — Transformation and Collaboration in the Paratexts of Australian Indigenous Children’s Literature
John Beston — From Bereavement to Immanence and Beyond: The Poetry of Michael Thorley
Lyndall Nairn — What’s a Bad Boy like You Doing in a Nice Place like This? Ned Kelly Faces Off against American College Freshmen
Departments
About the Cover
Remembering Phyllis Edelson
Interview — Belinda Wheeler interviews Heat and Light Author Ellen van Neerven
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors
Book Reviews
Fiction
Patricia Grace, Chappy — Craig Sanders
Alastair Sarre, Ecstasy Lake — Maeve Kirk
Gerald Murnane, A Million Windows — Hans Burger
Mark O’Flynn, The Last Days of Ava Langdon — Derek Hinckley
Peggy Frew, Hope Farm — Marjorie C. Allison
Julie Koh, Portable Curiosities — Lisa E. Balvanz
Biography
Suzanne Falkiner, Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow — John Beston
Poetry
Dan Disney, Either, Orpheus — Chelsey Zibell
Nonfiction
Robyn Rowland, This Intimate War: Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915, with Turkish translations by Mehmet Ali Çelikel — Danny Dyer
Social History
Henry Reynolds, Unnecessary Wars — Richard Carr