Antipodes Volume 25, Number 1 (June 2011)
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 25, No. 1
Special Issue: Australia and Asia
Poetry
Bronwyn Lovell -- Ad Hominem Crush
Louise Nicholas -- If on a winter's night a traveler
Josephine Rowe -- Casblanca, 2 a.m.
Carol Jenkins -- Water under the bridge
E. A. Gleeson -- In Praise of the Colorbond Fence
John Kinsella -- Sitting in the Car, a Hair's-breadth Away
Lachlan Brown -- Today
Geoffrey Lehmann -- Thirteen ways of looking at Xaviera, aged two
Thomas Shapcott -- Noon
Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- Such Living
Yve Louis -- Lost
Simon West -- Wading
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Margaret Barbalet -- Love Minus Zero
David Carnegie Young -- Coda
John Kinsella -- The Offering
Jane Downing -- Dancing
Andrew Sant -- On Taking Risks
Essays
Yasue Arimitsu -- The Contemporary State of Academic Appraisal of Australian Literature in Japanese Universities
Santosh K Sareen and Ipsita Sengupta -- Doshisha University, JapanIndia Explored and Jinned: Alfred Deakin’s Responses to the Subcontinent
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay -- Selling Australian Literature in India: Kolkata Book Fair as Cultural Diplomacy?
Paul Sharrad -- Les Murray in a Dhoti: Transnationalizing Australian Literature
Alison Broinowski -- Contesting Civilizations: Literature of Australia in Japan and Singapore
Wang Guanglin -- A Hard-Won Success: Australian Literary Studies in China
Ouyang Yu -- A Century of Oz Lit in China: A Critical Overview (1906–2008)
Wenche Ommundsen -- Transnational (Il)literacies: Reading the "New Chinese Literature in Australia" in China
Jonathan Rayner -- Gothic Definitions: The New Australian "Cinema of Horrors"
Departments
About the Cover
Editorial -- We Are Relocating, Alison Broinowski (Guest Editor, Australia-Asia section)
Interview -- The Professor, the Publisher, the Writer: Three Interviews, Ouyang Yu
Book Reviews
Fiction
Peter Carey, Parrot & Olivier in America -- A. Digger Stolz
Stephen Orr, Time's Long Ruin -- Kate Hove
Peter Skrxynecki, Boys of Summer -- Marjorie C. Allison
Peter Temple, Truth -- Katherine Mulcrone
Poetry
Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to 'm' -- Melina Draper
Cameron Lowe, Porch Music -- Airica Parker
Nonfiction
Delia Falconer, Sydney -- Michael Butler
Paul Kelly, How To Make Gravy -- Nathanael O'Reilly
Indigenous Studies
Chris Healy, Forgetting Aborigines -- Marilyn Strelau