Antipodes Volume 35, Numbers 1-2 (June-December 2021)
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 35, Issues 1 & 2 (June/December 2021)
From the Editor
About the Cover
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Creative Writing Competition Awards
Drifters — Rosanna E. Licari (Poetry Winner)
The Hero of My Bones — Susan M. Hancock (Fiction Winner)
Beach Road — Catherine Padmore (Honorable Mention in Fiction)
Special Section on the Work of Christos Tsiolkas
Guest editor: Barbara M. Hoffmann
Introduction: Christos Tsiolkas: Rage, Discomfort, Disgust . . . and Beauty
Barbara M. Hoffmann
The Politics of Disgust: Form and Feeling in Christos Tsiolkas’s Merciless Gods
Keyvan Allahyari and Tyne Daile Sumner
Class, Rage, and Staging the Revolution: Tsiolkas’s Theater
David Burton, Jessica Gildersleeve, and Kathryn Kelly
“The Sopranos Meets The Real Housewives of Orange County”: The Publishing of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap in the United States
Per Henningsgaard
Tsiolkas in the Classroom: Confronting Our Discomfort
Jessica Gildersleeve, Kate Cantrell, Nycole Prowse, Sharon Bickle, and India Bryce
Special Section on Book History and Publishing Studies in Australia and New Zealand
Guest editor: Per Henningsgaard
Introduction: Social Hour for Australia’s Scholars of Book History and Publishing Studies
Per Henningsgaard
The Miles Franklin Literary Award: Investigating the Value of a Local Prize on the Global Stage
Airlie Lawson and Catriona Mills
Australian Authors in the House of William Morrow: Writing Good Commercial Fiction for the US Market
Roger Osborne and David Carter
Measuring “Diversity” in Australian Publishing: An Overview and a Proposal
Jodie Lea Martire
Aura and Access: Toward a New Methodology for Book Exhibitions in the Digital Realm
Julia C. Rodwell and Anna Welch
Peripatetic Printers of Early Nineteenth-Century Australia: The Interconnected Stories of Howe, Bent, and Fawkner
Jocelyn Hargrave
Imagining Mallee Readers: Literary Infrastructures of a Regional Community
Brigid Magner and Emily Potter
Poetry
Cold Tea at the End of August — Kristian Radford
pop art — Feana Tu‘akoi
3.8 in Otautahi — Gregory Dally
Questions Raised by Australian A-frames — Samantha Johnson
Talking back — Ouyang Yu
Needs — S. C. Flynn
Blister — Joel Deane
1983 — Rachael Mead
Self-Portrait with Moreton Bay Figs: Melbourne. 26.9.2021 — Susan Fealy
6.3.8 (37) (Darkin River, Fire Dam) — Catherine Noske
Turning my back on Australians overseas — Brendan Ryan
Outskirts — Angela Costi
Annulus — Anne Elvey
The Key — Felicity Plunkett
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
Interval North — Dominique Hecq
Somebody’s Child — Jena Woodhouse
Genetic Drift — Rose Michael
K.J. — Geoff Goodfellow
Duplex — Stuart Barnes
In Transit —Frances Rouse
my father types me a note and in it writes “for the reasons given” rather than actually using the word depression — Paula Harris
Ribbon Kelp — Audrey Molloy
That Is Not My Telephone Ringing — Ben Hession
The black b-double — Tom Coverdale
The Tractor Job — B. R. Dionysius
To see an owl in the day, wisdom must come — Anne Casey
What I Was Looking For — David Adès
Creative Prose
Cheesecake — Anna Denejkina
What Remains — Denise O’Hagan
Eden — Luna Mrozik Gawler
From All Over...About Down Under
From France
Temiti Lehartel
From Offices and Living Rooms around the World
Barbara M. Hoffmann and Ann-Marie Blanchard
Reviews
Criticism
Geoff Rodoreda and Eva Bischoff, eds. Mabo’s Cultural Legacy — Rhonda Evans
Jessica Gildersleeve, ed. The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature — Geoff Rodoreda
Fiction
Christos Tsiolkas. 7½ — Richard Car
Amanda Lohrey. The Labyrinth — Eric Heyne
H. C. Gildfind. Born Sleeping — Farisa Khalid
Poetry
Diane Brown. Every Now and Then I Have Another Child — Brendan Kiernan
Lynley Edmeades. Listening In — Michaela Coplen
Elizabeth Morton. This is your real name — Gabriel Dunsmith
Abstracts
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors