Antipodes Volume 29, Number 1 (June 2015)
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
Peter Goldsworthy — Self-Portrait with Statue
Eileen Chong — Last Leaf
Marcelle Freiman — Hollow Tree
Jan Owen — Flamenco
Michael Farrell — Shaped by the Bush
Ron Pretty — fall
Jena Woodhouse — Return of the Prodigal
Barry Hill — Grief
Jakob Ziguras — Isola di San Michele
Edith Speers — Easy listening
Catherine Vidler — The birthday cake
Ouyang Yu — Scratch that
Fiction/Creative Writing
Julie Chevalier — Not Breastfeeding for Dummies
Toby McCasker — Son of No. One
Raeden Richardson — The Quarry
Fikret Pajalic — Tomorrow
Gillian Bouras — Thorough Pictures of the Heart
Essays
Rohan Wilson — Extinction Discourse in Wanting and Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World
Grace Moore — Home Was Where the Hearth Is: Fire, Destruction, and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Settler Narratives
Claire Corbett — Must Australia Always Be Imaginary?: Cartography as Creation in Peter Carey’s “Do You Love Me?”
Josephine A. McQuail — “How can Life be Still?”: Teaching Janet Frame’s A State of Seige and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Nathanael O’Reilly — Mythology, History, and Truth: Teaching Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang
Luma Balaa — Exile, Return, and Nationalism in A Goodland
Theodore F. Sheckels — Australian Film in the Australian Literature Classroom
Tegan Jane Schetrumpf — Diminished but Never Dismissed: The Confessional Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Bruce Beaver
Wang Guanglin — Translating Fragments: Disorientation in Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing
John J. Carmody — Patrick White, Composer Manqué: The Centrality of Music in White’s Artistic Aspiration
Rosalind Nicole McFarlane — A “Bay of Whispers”: Seascape in Simone Lazaroo’s The Australian Fiancé
Michael Organ — Pre-Raphaelite Wonderland: Christian Yandell’s Alice
Ouyang Yu — A Poetic Revolution in Keywords: On Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Departments
About the Cover
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors
Book Reviews
Fiction
Evie Wylde, All the Birds, Singing — Christie Hinrichs
Peter Carey, Amnesia — Jacob Pinkston
Janet Frame, In the Memorial Room — Jenni Moody
Sonya Hartnett, Golden Boys — Victoria Avery
Peter Corris, Standing in the Shadow — Molly Nurray
Nicholas Jose, Bapo: Short Stories — Jennifer Popa
Drama
Tim Winton, Shrine: A Play in One Act — Tom Moran
Poetry
LK Holt, Keeps: with Patience, Mutiny and Man Wolf Man— Christopher Lee Miles
Social History
Ann Game, Andrew Metcalfe, and Demelza Marlin, On Bondi Beach— Sarah Jane Holsteen