Antipodes Volume 34, Number 1 (June 2020)
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 34, Issue 1 (June 2020)
From the Editor
About the Cover
Essay
“The Water Changing under Keel”: Chris Wallace-Crabbe and the Transformation of Style
Judith Bishop
Peter Cowan: An Angry Penguin in the West
John Barnes
Featured Writer: Brian Castro
Introduction: Brian Castro—Mon Semblable—Mon Frère!
Peter D. Mathews
No Crossword or Chiasmus: The Self-Vexing of Literariness in Brian Castro’s Blindness and Rage
Nicholas Birns
Mixed-Race Corporality in Brian Castro’s Fiction
Marilyne Brun
Stealing the Scene: Brian Castro’s Double-Wolf
Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
Reading Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing at the Bottom of the Sea
Reuben Mackey
Poetry
Seasons in Rotation — Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Blue — Cassandra O'Loughlin
The sun and the moon — Stephen Brock
Testimony — Claire Miranda Roberts
The Home — Mona Zahra Attamimi
Needle — Eileen Chong
Monologue to a Wayward Niece — Geoff Goodfellow
Missing the Rain — Ross Gillett
Her Da's hip — Carol Jenkins
Working from Home — Petra White
No New Thing Under the Sun— Liam Ferney
The Clocks — Roland Leach
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
Micklos. And I — Jordon Conway
The Atoll — Caroline Flood
Stone — Rachel Robertson
Reviews
Criticism
Lyn McCredden. The Fiction of Tim Winton — Salhia Ben-Messahel
Josephine A. McQuail, ed. Janet Frame in Focus: Women Analyze the Works of the New Zealand Writer — Eva Rueschmann
Chrystopher J. Spicer. Cyclone Country: The Language of Place and Disaster in Australian Literature — Robert Zeller
Memoir
Christopher Raja. Into the Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story— Kiran Bhat
Fiction
Lainie Anderson. Long Flight Home — Victoria Avery
Tom Keneally. The Dickens Boy — Ryan Shek
Abstracts
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors