Antipodes Volume 30, Number 1 (June 2016)
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
Poetry
Carol Jenkins — Zero: Things I Do in My Spare Time
Ian C. Smith — X the unknown factor in factory
Toby Davidson — Ultraviolet Dusk Before a Storm
Jena Woodhouse — Walking towards Juktas
Liam Ferney — Hanam-chi, May 2002
L. K. Holt — Serious
Chris Wallace-Crabbe — Hours
Tru Dowling — Ice Age
Jane Frank — At the Graves
John Kinsella — The Einsiedeln GM Eclogues: 1
Anders Villani — Bush Strangers
Michael Farrell — AC/DC as First Emu Prime Minister
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Soren Tae Smith — Quantifying Shakespeare
John Kinsella — Selling Desk Sets in the City
Geoff Goodfellow — What Harry Taught Me
Enzo Condello — All This Struggle for Her?
Essays
Nicholas Dunlop — Suburban Space and Multicultural Identities in Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap
Timothy Kazuo Steains — The Politics of Possession in Paddy O'Reilly's The Factory
H. N. Prakrithi — Multicultural Identity and Matters of gender in Melina Marchetta's Looking for Alibrandi
David Mason — The Name Inside the Name: On the Poetry of Kevin Hart
Belinda Burns — Mother to Other: Feminine Becoming in Fiona McGregor's Indelible Ink
Adam Gall — Form, Experience, and Desire: Frank Moorhouse's 1970s Cycles as Experimental Writing
Ralph Crane and Danielle Wood — Three Tales for Emmie: Joan Wise's Forgotten Tasmanian Triptych
Lucy Neave — "The Distance Between Them": Sheep, Women, and Violence in Evie Wyld's All the Birds, Singing and Barbara Baynton's Bush Studies
Richard Hardack — The Silence of the Lambs: Childhood Disabilities, Gender Ambiguities, and Postcolonial Detectives in Keri Hulme's The Bone People and Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow
Fiona Duthie — Enemies of Honor: Heroes and Prisoners of War in Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Tom Keneally's Shame and the Captives
Greg Hughes — Very Queer Indeed: Martin Boyd's Nuns in Jeopardy
Kirril Robert Shields — Communism Usurping Fascism: Political Propaganda in Jean Devanny's Roll Back the Night and Dymphna Cusack's Heat Wave in Berlin
Departments
About the Cover
Review Essay — "Not Me Go to England No More": Michael Farrell's Writing Australian Unsettlement, U. S. Dhuga
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors
Book Reviews
Criticism
Cynthia vanden Driesen and Bill Ashcroft, eds., Patrick White Centenary: The Legacy of a Prodigal Son — Carolyn Bliss
Fiction
Gail Jones, A Guide to Berlin — Katy Crane
Tony Birch, Ghost River — Eric-Alain Parker
Wendy Scarfe, Hunger Town — Victoria Avery
Félix Calvino, Alfonso — Jennifer Popa
Poetry
Adrian Caesar, Dark Cupboards New Rooms — Carolyn Stice
Simon West, The Ladder — Dan Disney
Cassandra Atherton, Exhumed — Dan Disney
Christine Townend, Walking with Elephants — Airica Parker
Nonfiction
Lydia Laube, From Burma to Myanmar: On the Road to Mandalay — Natalie Taylor
Children's Literature
Mark Riordan, The Poetry of Queensland: B. J. P. Burnsyde Anthology, Book Six — U. S. Dhuga