Antipodes Volume 23, Number 1 (June 2009)
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
Antipodes, Volume 23, Issue 1 (June 2009)
Poetry
Ross Donlon -- The man whose wife has told him to leave
Jane Gibian -- Lash
Michael Farrell -- sonnet for emma lew
Andrew Sant -- August
Ouyang Yu -- written in the city, a fragment
Michael Sharkey -- Women in their houses on their own
Yve Louis -- Fox Maiden
Anne M. Carson -- Hanging
Anthony Lynch -- Noise
Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- Nor Am I Out Of It
Petra White -- Trampolining
Sarah Day -- Fungi
Robyn Roland -- In the line of sight
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Ouyang Yu -- The Importance of Being Correct: Burma Road Pieces, from end to beginning
Graham McKenzie -- The Smoker's Case
Andy Potter -- The Plodder
Essays
Nathanael O'Reilly and Jean-Francois Vernay -- Terror Australis Incognita? An Introduction to Fear in Australian Literature and Film
Catriona Ross -- Paranoid Projections: Australian Novels of Asian Invasion
Deborah Madsen -- The Exception that Proves the Rule? National Fear, Racial Loathing, Chinese Writing in "UnAustralia"
Elspeth Tilley -- The Uses of Fear: Spatial Politics in the Australian White-vanishing Trope
Gay Breyley -- Fearing the Protector, Fearing the Protected: Indigenous and "National" Fears in Twentieth-century Australia
Donna Coates -- Reality Bites: The Impact of the Second World War on the Australian Home Front in Maria Gardner’s Blood Stained Wattle and Robin Sheiner’s Smile, the War Is Over
Richard Carr -- A World of . . . Risk, Passion, Intensity, and Tragedy: The Post-9/11 Australian Novel
Roslyn Weaver -- The Edge of the World: Fearful Borders
Theodore Sheckels -- Fear in Peter Weir's Australian Films: A Matter of Control
Departments
Interview -- Negotiating Two Hemispheres: The Country of Unspoken Feeling: An Interview with Jean Kent, Christopher Lee
Book Reviews
Fiction
Nam Le, The Boat -- Nathanael O'Reilly
Steven Carroll, The Time We Have Taken -- Linda Nairn
Gail Jones, Sorry -- Katherine Mulcrone
Nicholas Jose, Avenue of Eternal Peace -- Brian Keenan
Wendy James, The Steele Diaries -- Madara Mason HIll
Lenny Bartulin, A Deadly Business -- Jamison Klagmann
Alice Nelson, The Last Sky -- Nicole Gurly
Nick Gaff, Ghostlines -- A. Digger Stolz
Poetry
John Kinsella, The New Arcadia -- Carolyn Stice
Katherine Gallagher, Tigers on the Silk Road -- Emily Johnston
John Mateer, Elsewhere -- Ingeborg van Teeseling
Criticism
Ouyang Yu, Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888-1988 -- Steve Brock