Antipodes Volume 33, Number 1 (June 2019)
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.
Antipodes Volume 33, Issue 1 (June 2019)
From the Editor
About the Cover
Essays
Suzie Gibson — The Embrace of Ambiguity in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw
Merril Howie — Prose That Makes Us “Laugh, Cry, Squirm and Gasp and Wonder”: Imagery, Memory, and Emotion in Helen Garner’s Memoirs
Arnab Chatterjee — Applying Rasa Theory in David Williamson’s The Removalists
Roger Osborne — A Fleeting Infatuation with All Things Australian: American Editions of Australian Novels, 1979–1989
Featured Topic: Alexis Wright
Belinda Wheeler — Introduction: Alexis Wright’s Significant, Growing Oeuvre
Geoff Rodoreda — Traces of Territory: Alexis Wright’s Grog War (1997)
Estelle Castro-Koshy and Philippe Guerre — “In My Mind I See Cross-Roads for Everything I Believe In”: The Way Home in Alexis Wright’s Croire en l’incroyable (Believe in the Unbelievable) and Le Pacte du serpent arc-en-ciel
Demelza Hall — Framing the Unutterable: Reading Trauma in Alexis Wright’s Short Fiction
Per Henningsgaard — Alexis Wright’s Publishing History in Three Contexts: Australian Aboriginal, National, and International
Poetry
Tru S. Dowling — Moving On
Paul Mitchell — Portrait of Departure
Alastair Clarke — Snow, Cockatoo
Ron Wilkins — Revelation in Troyes
Anna Jackson — Too much, and still quite cold
Jane Williams — Simply 21
Les Wicks — Struck
Nathanael O’Reilly — Beach Ballet
Catherine Wright — Nullarbor
Brendan Ryan — Weeding: a love poem
Jane Frank — Iris
Dimitris Tsaloumas (trans. Matina Doumou) — Postponement
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
Soren Tae Smith — This Is a Difficult Piece to Write
Ben Walter — We Will Warm Ourselves
Heather Taylor-Johnson — This Is It
Sue Joseph — Suspension . . .
Ouyang Yu — 23 Tiny Stories
Book Reviews
Fiction
Claire G. Coleman. Terra Nullius — Victoria Avery
Michelle de Kretser. The Life to Come — Richard Carr
Helen Garner. Stories: The Collected Short Fiction — Jody Marie Hassel
H. C. Gildfind. The Worry Front — David C. Muller
Roger McDonald. A Sea-Chase — Jason Namey
Alex Miller. The Passage of Love — Jennifer Popa
K. M. Steele. Road to Tamarlin — Summer Dorr
Michael Wilding, Little Demon — Matilda Grogan
Josephine Wilson. Extinctions — Sarah Small
Poetry
Kevin Densley. Orpheus in the Undershirt — James Roderick Burns
John Kinsella and Paul Kane. Renga: 100 Poems — Kendalyn Mckisick
Stephen Oliver. Gone: Satirical Poems: New & Selected — Stephen Co