Antipodes Volume 28, Number 1 (June 2014)
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
Special Section on Pedagogy
Trauma Theory as Activist Pedagogy: Engaging Students as Reader-Witnesses of Colonial Trauma in Once Were Warriors
Emily R. Johnston, Illinois State University
Reading Australia from Distant Shores
Jennifer Wawrzinek, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Teaching and Professing English in Western Australia: Acknowledging the Anglophilia and Democratic Ideals of a Figure that Shaped the Discipline
Patricia C. Dowsett, University of Western Australia
Thinking Theatrically/Acting Locally
Sharon Mazer, University of Canterbury
Teaching Traumatic Life Narratives: Affect, Witnessing, and Ethics
Kate Douglas and Tully Barnett, Flinders University
Teaching Australian Literature in a Class about Literatures of Social Reform
Per Henningsgaard, Portland State University
E Tu: On Teaching Patricia Grace's Novel of the Māori Battalion
Matthew Packer, Bueno Vista University
Poetry
Second Winter
Michelle Cahill
Brahms
Geoff Page
Days like these
Jo Langdon
to write the wind
Anne Elvey
A Poem For Other People As I Have No Doubts Or Regrets
Richard James Allen
Vanishing Point
Craig Billingham
He said
Ouyang Yu
So What
Les Wicks
Hammerhead
John Kinsella
he mihi mō katoa
Vaughan Rapatahana
Victoria Street Mall
Andy Jackson
Tassled Cordrush
Adrienne Eberhard
Facing backward
Yves Louis
Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
My Hears Are Your Hearts
Carmel Bird
A Small Matter of Demoliton
Stephen Oliver
Mr. and Mrs. Ouyang (trans. into English by Ouyang Yu)
Han Guangju
Domicile
Morris Lurie
The Ducklings
Lara S. Williams
On Your 21st Birthday
Niki Tulk
Essays
You Could Have Been There (Unmasking the Fictional Voice) [Vassar College Gifford Visiting Writers Series Talk, introduced by Ron Sharp]
Alex Miller
Memories and Letters: Nadine and Lina Lewin's Friendship with Christina Stead
Valerie Mendelson
The Rhetoric of Luck in Christina Stead's Letty Fox: Her Luck
Fiona Morrison
"A Nation for a Continent": Australian Literature and the Cartographic Imaginary of the Federation Era
Robert Dixon
Lovely Boys, Good Blokes, and Bonzer Bints: Love and Eroticism in British and Australian Great War Narratives
Clare Rhoden
A Present Absence, an Absent Present: Reading Kevin Hart's "For Marion, My Sister"
Lachlan Brown
Shantaram: Portrait of an Australian Bestseller
Brigid Magner
Book Reviews