Antipodes Volume 24, Number 2 (December 2010)
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 24, No. 2 (December 2010
Special Issue: Australia and Latin America
Poetry
John Tranter -- The Bad Writer
Brendan Ryan -- Traveling through the Family
Debbie Lim -- Whale
Diane fahey -- This Life
Andrew Sant -- Thirroul
Cassandra O'Loughlin -- The Room and the Tree
Leah Kaminsky -- Still Life with Children, Haifa 2000
Ross Gillett -- The Insomniac
Adrian Robinson -- Gone to Earth
Stephen Edgar -- A Scene from Proust
Luke Icarus Simon -- Next of Kin
Geoff Page -- The Ceiling
Mark Mahemoff -- Considerations on QF405
Lynda Shevellar -- Submerged
Fiction/Creative Writing
Julie Chevalier -- Meant
Prudence Gibson -- The Funeral
Essays
James Halford -- Reviving the Radical 1890s: Contemporary Returns to Williams Lane's Australian Utopian Settlements in Paraguay
Andrew McCann -- Discrepant Cosmopolitanism and the Contemporary Novel: Reading the Inhuman in Christos Tsiolkas’s Dead Europe and Roberto Bolano’s 2666
Stuart Cooke -- Orpheus in the New World: Poetry and Landscape in Australia and Chile
Juan E. De Castro -- Australia in Borges and Buarque
Maria Takolander -- Magical Realism and Fakery: After Carpentier’s “Marvelous Real” and Mudrooroo’s “Maban Reality”
Michael Jacklin -- “Desde Australia para todo el mundo hispano”: Australia’s Spanish- Language Magazines and Latin American/Australian Writing
Bridie McCarthy -- Identity as Radical Alterity: Critiques of Eurocentrism, Coloniality, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Australian and Latin American Poetry
Vivian Smith -- Douglas Stewart andd the Fragility of Things
Departments
From The Editor -- Nicholas Birns, Australian-Latin American Connections: An Antipodes Special Issue
About The Cover -- Ash Keating, Pascua Lama Information Wall
Bibliography of Australian and New Zealand Literature and Criticism Published in North America, 2008-2009 -- Faye Christenberry
Book Reviews
Fiction
Thomas Shapcott, Gatherers and Hunters -- Jacob Pinkston
Cath Kenneally, Jetty Road -- Jessica Bryant
Michael Wilding, Superfluous Men -- Brian Keenan
Peter Corris, Wishart's Quest -- Ryan Henderson
Poetry
Maria Takolander, Ghostly Subjects -- Greg Lyons
Andrew Sant, Speed & Other Liberties -- Kelly Manning
Felicity Plunkett, Vanishing Point -- A. Frances Johnson
Creative Nonfiction
Teri Louise Kelly, Last Bed on Earth -- K.C. Eib
Life Writing
Bev Roberts, Miss D and Miss N: An Extraordinary Partnership -- Rachael J. Alanzo
Indigenous Studies
Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia, and Blake Kwaymullina, eds., Heartsick for Country: Stories of Love, Spirit, and Creation -- Xh'unei / Lance A. Twitchell (Tlingit, Haida, Yup'ik)
Social History
Terry Irving and Rowan Cahillp, Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes -- Ingeborg van Teeseling
Wendy Law Suart, With Bags and Swags: Around Australia in the Forties -- Sean Scarisbrick