Antipodes Volume 31, Number 2 (December 2017)
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 31, Issue 2 (December 2017)
Poetry
Peter Boyle — Stepping from a dark bedroom onto the wide veranda, daybreak
Michelle Cahill — Restraint, . . . or a lover’s appeal for Sophrosyne
Jennifer Compton — Timeshare in Coolangatta
Sarah Day — Fog
John Grey — Of Nature and Nurture
Virginia Jealous — Osprey
Les Murray — Silo Portraits, Western Victoria
Mark O’Flynn — Bio Note
Jan Owen — from Six Views of Edo
Craig Sherborne — Bliss
Edith Speers — Dreaming the Cube
Simon West — The Broken River
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Barrie Smillie — Nice Doggie
Anna Denejkina — The Apartment
Caitlin Doyle-Markwick — The Eviction
Essays
Jeanine Leane — Gathering: The Politics of Memory and Contemporary Aboriginal Women’s Writing
Tim Wright — Across Time: Laurie Duggan’s Blue Hills
Jamie Derkenne — Richard Flanagan’s and Alexis Wright’s Magic Nihilism
Harriette Richards — Reading Lady Barker: Fashioning Femininity in Colonial New Zealand
Li Jingyan — Chineseness, Australianness, Homelessness: The Home Song Stories: Retold in a Spatial Perspective
Keyvan Allahyari — Reading beyond Jack Maggs, Configuring a World
Geoff Rodoreda — Sovereignty, Mabo, and Indigenous Fiction
Marie Herbillon — A Piano Made in Australia: Reinventing an Emblem of Cultural Wealth in Murray Bail’s The Voyage
Suzette Mayr — “Misfit” College: The Sentient House as Thing in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock
Audrey J. Golden — Dialogic Constitution-Making: Keri Hulme’s the bone people and New Zealand’s Constitutional Crisis
Lyn J. Jacobs — Gardens and Inscription: Fictions by Tan Twan Eng and Fiona McGregor
Departments
About the Cover
Interview — Project Anywhere: Niki Tulk Interviews Sean Lowry
Interview — Visual and Aural World of Contemporary Society: Pradeep Trikha Interviews Vivian Smith
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors
Book Reviews
Fiction
Alec Patrić, Black Rock White City — Nataša Kampmark
Felix Calvino, So Much Smoke — Elle Fournier
David Brooks, Napoleon’s Roads — Megan Mericle
Nonfiction
Tim Winton, The Boy behind the Curtain — Katherine Mulcrone
Poetry
Anna Wickham; Nathanael O’Reilly, ed., New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham — Kori Hensell
J. H. Crone, Our Lady of the Fence Post — Niki Tulk