Antipodes Volume 33, Number 2 (December 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 2 (December 2019)
From the Editor
About the Cover
Essay
Antipodean Modernism: The “Fourth Dimension” in the Writings of Robin Hyde and Ethel Anderson
Yingjie M. Cheng
Interview
Australian Literature Today — Labao Wang interviews Elizabeth Webby
Featured Topic: Articulating Southeast Asia and the Antipodes
Introduction: Articulating Southeast Asia and the Antipodes
Weihsin Gui with Cheryl Narumi Naruse
Australian Theater’s White Gaze in the Making of Coloured Aliens
Chi Vu
Reanimating Vietnamese Australian Diasporas through Digital Autographics: The Work of Lê Văn Tài
M. O’Brien
Stories from the South: Literary Depictions of Indonesians in Australia
Elisabeth Arti Wulandari
Sexing the Banana: Michele Lee’s Banana Girl
Zhouling Tian and Wenche Ommundsen
“Twice-Nationalized”: The Expatriation and Repatriation of Ming Cher’s Spider Boys
Eunice Ying Ci Lim
Neoliberal Subjectivity and the Agony of Choice in Teo Hsu-Ming’s Love and Vertigo
Samuel Perks
Hsu-Ming Teo’s Post-Multicultural Affective Improvisations on Love
Sneja Gunew
Poetry
Near-believing — Alan Wearne
Shimmer — Diane Fahey
when the utu came — Vaughan Rapatahana
Available time — Robyn Maree Pickens
9.13am — Ouyang Yu
The Poem I Have Not Written — E. A. Gleeson
Crumbs — Ian C. Smith
From On High — Kathryn Fry
The Sleepers — Iain Britton
Stump Psalm — Ben Walter
Our breathing sounds like a blanket — A. G. Pettet
The Foundling Wheel — Jennifer Compton
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
At the Pub — Tiffany Allan
What a Perfect Kabob Tastes Like — Paul Mitchell
Ngā whānau — Vaughan Rapatahana
Angel of the Void (five-second fall) — Nicholas Duddy
From All Over...About Down Under
About Robert Dixon: “RobCon 2019” — John Scheckter
About Art: A Map Much Needed — Rhonda Evans
About Outreach: Prison Transformation through Writing — Adelle Sefton-Rowston
About Auctions: The Art of Not Forgetting — John Ellison Davies
Reviews
Poetry
Nathanael O’Reilly. (Un)belonging — Kendalyn Mckisick
Sue Wootton. The Yield — Tiffany Thomas
Nonfiction
David G. Brooks. The Grass Library — Craig Sanders
Fiction
Robbie Arnott. Flames — Brianna Frentzko
KH Canobi. Mindcull — Venus Fultz
Melanie Cheng. Room for a Stranger — Adrianne Blackwood
K. M. Kruimink. A Treacherous Country — Richard Carr
Elliot Perlman. Maybe the Horse Will Talk — Derek Hinckley
Ian Reid. A Thousand Tongues — Meryem Udden
Abstracts
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors