Antipodes Volume 25, Number 2 (December 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, Issue 2 (December 2011)
Poetry
Michael Farell — symbol thing
Luke Fischer — Grasshopper in a Field
Peter Bakowski — Written in a woman’s hand
Aidan Coleman — Self-portrait with Advice
Heather Taylor Johnson — Bare feet
Suzanne Edgar — Homage to Mapplethorpe
Michael Sharkey — The Myth of the Eternal Student
Jamie King-Holden — Before
Robert Gray — Ekphrasis
Ashley Capes — you steal a boat
Lisa Gorton — A Description of the Storm Glass and Brief Guide to its Use in Forecasting Weather
Andy Kissane — The Car
David Howard — Reading Entrails
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Zhao Chuan — My African Things
Jeremy Fisher — On Rosa-Luxembourg-Strasse in a Vietnamese Café
Helen Gildfind — Gently, Gently
Inez Baranay — The Idea of Europe
Janet Roberts — Bravery
Stephen Oliver — A Big Fruity Guy . . .
Greg Bogaerts — Maria
Ouyang Yu — from Direct Translations: Words and Stories
Petra Kuppers — Landings: Darwin
Essays
Katherine Hallemeier — Writing Hyrbidity: The Theory and Practice of Autobiography in Rey Chow’s “The Secrets of Ethnic Abjection” and Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing
Jame Dahlstrom — America, the Forbidden Fruit: Anti-American Sentiment in Robbery Under Arms
Janice Shaw — Beverly Farmer’s Embrace of the Mirror
Gillian Dooley — “You are my Australia”: Brian Medlin’s Contribution to Iris Murdoch’s Concept of Australia in The Green Knight
Elizabeth Hicks — Love and Vertigo: The Blue Mountains as Veranda in Australian Women’s Writing
Kathleen Steele — Reading the Metaphors of Tree and Island in Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright, and Dorothy Hewett
Ali Alizadeh — Against Representation: Louis Armand and the Limits of New Australian Poetry
Departments
About the Cover Art (Inside Front Cover)
Editorial -- Uus-Meremaa?
In Memoriam, Terry Sturm (11 July 1941–25 May 2009)
Book Reviews
Fiction
Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance — Rich Carr
Peter Docker, The Waterboys — Nicole Gurley
Alastair Sarre, Prohibited Zone — John Fletcher
Chris Womersley, Bereft — Hans Burger
Jena Woodhouse, Farming Ghosts — Patrick Barney
Amy T. Matthews, End of the Night Girl — Sarah Doetschman
Poetry
Jill Jones, Dark Bright Doors — Greg Lyons
John Mateer, The West: Australian poems 1989–2009 — Edward Kim
Nathanael O’Reilly, Symptoms of Homesickness — Melina Draper
Drama
Eva Di Cesare, Sandra Eldridge, Tim McGarry (from a novel by Sonya Hartnett). Thursday’s Child: The Play — Tom Moran
Literary Criticism
John Beston, Patrick White within the Western Literary Tradition— Carolyn Bliss
Social History
Matthew Condon, Brisbane — Michael Butler