Antipodes Volume 26, Number 1 (June 2012)
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.
p>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 26, Issue 1 (June 2012)
Poetry
Chris Wallace-Crabbe — Down There
Anna Ryan-Punch — Recipes
John Watson — Anthology of Australian Poetry
Les Wicks — Each
Belinda Rule — In the long grass
Geoff Page — The Mercies
Rodney Williams — Tissue
Laura Woollett — Laura de Noves
Ron Pretty — Waiting
Graeme Hetherington — For James McAuley
Libby Hart — Clover Field
Cameron Lowe — Tidal
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Susan Carson — Colleridge’s Bucket List
Michelle Cahill — Finding the Buddha
Lara S. Williams — Samson and Bundi
Laurie Hergenhan — A Literary Visit to the USA: A Memoir
Kevin Roberts — In Xanadu . . . A Stately Pleasure Dome
Essays
Brenda Walker — A Writer Makes Notes on the Ark
Salhia Ben-Messahel — “More blokes, more bloody water!” Tim Winton’s Breath
Jessica Geva — Patrick White: (Auto)biography—A Veiled Confession?
Sue Ryan-Fazilleau — Hybridity, Power Discourse and Evolving Representations of Aboriginality (1970s—today)
James Dahlstrom — Dick the Poet: “Allegorical Tendencies” in Robbery Under Arms
Amanda Kane Rooks — Sexual Violation and the “Amoral” Woman in Aboriginal Verse
Jean-François Vernay— Big Father Is Watching You: A Postcolonial Reading of Peter Kocan’s Total Instituion Novellas
Peter Mathews — The Transnational Fantasy: The Case of James Cowan Shaoyang Zhang — Religion, Eroticism and Being’s Continuity: A Reading of Kevin Hart in Light of Bataille’s Theory
Don Graham — The Rhetoric of Personal Address in Michael Wilding’s Short Fiction
Departments
About the Cover
Interview — An Interview with Tim Winton, Salhia Ben-Messahel
Interview — A Critical Life, An Interview with Laurie Clancy, Pradeep Trikha
Review Essay — No Simple Passage: The Journey of the Ship London to New Zealand 1842—A Ship of Hope by Jenny Robin Jones, Nicholas Birns
Bibliography of Australian and New Zealand Literature and Criticism Published in North America, 2010–2011, H. Faye Christenberry
Book Reviews
Fiction
Roger McDonald, When Colts Ran — Paul Plisiewicz
Steven Carroll, Spirit of Progress — Nathanael O’Reilly
Michael Meehan, Below the Styx — Ryan Henderson
Wayne Macauley, Other Stories — Brian Keenan
Ouyang Yu, Loose: A Wild History — Joan E. Thompson
Michael Wilding, The Magic of It — Tom Moran
Poetry
John Kinsella, Jam Tree Gully — Airica Parker
John Mateer, Southern Barbarians — Ivar Arnegard
Francis Webb, Collected Poems — Michael Griffith