Antipodes Volume 31, Number 1 (June 2017)
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 31, Issue 1 (June 2017)
Poetry
Annie Blake — Shooting Up with You
Eileen Chong — Autumn
Suzanne Edgar — If Only
Marcelle Freiman — Poinsettias
Peter Goldsworthy — Anatomy of a Metaphor
Geoff Goodfellow — Kapok Pillow
Geoff Page — What is to be said
Ron Pretty — Merlin
Brendan Ryan — The Lowlands of Moyne
Anna Ryan-Punch — The Bone Buried
Corey Wakeling — r > g
Chris Wallace-Crabbe — Demurely
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Margaret Barbalet — Wire, and again wire
Tom Dullemond — Lifting the Veil
Catherine Ryan — Getting a Word
Ashleigh Synnott — Cleaning Products
Enzo Condello — The Nero Conspiracy
Essays
Kelly Frame — “The Last Place”: The Uncanny Australia of David Mitchell
Hasti Abbasi — The Ideology of Exile in an Imaginary Life
Jean-François Vernay — The Ringside View of Australian Fiction
Binoy Kampmark — Securitization, Refugees, and Australia’s Turn Back the Boats Policy, 2013–2015
Nigel Starck — The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope’s Australasian Odyssey
Ellen Moody — On Inventing a New Country: Trollope’s Depiction of Settler Colonialism
Amy Mead and Amy Matthews — The Vessel and the Trace in Anna Funder’s Stasiland
Harriet L. McInerney — Apprehending Landscapes: The Uncanny and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains
Robert Dixon — “Communications from Below”: Scalar Transformations in Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) and Steven Carroll’s A World of Other People (2013)
Cheryl M. Taylor — “It Fits Where It Touches”: Ronald McKie’s Fiction and 1970s Feminism
Departments
About the Cover
Interview — Keyvan Allahyari and Dominic Smith in Conversation
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors
Book Reviews
Fiction
Anita Heiss, Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms — Caitlin Woolley
Ian Reid, The Mind’s Own Place — Ryan Henderson
Joan London, The Golden Age — Amy Marsh
Jock Serong, The Rules of Backyard Cricket — Patrick Barney
Alastair Sarre, Ecstasy Lake: A Steve West Novel — Matt Wharton
Poetry
MTC Cronin, The Law of Poetry — Eric-Alain Parker
Memoir
Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate Race — Megan Bush