Antipodes
A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature
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.
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Antipodes Volume 34, Issue 2 (December 2020)
From the Editor
About the Cover
Essays
Modernity in the Antipodes: Politics and Aesthetics in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney
Naish Gawen
Contemporary Historical Fiction and Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves
Charlotte Guest
Interview
“All you have to do is look”: Nicholas Birns interviews Donna Coates
Featured Topic: Reimagining Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand Cinema
Guest Editor: Eva Rueschmann
Introduction: The Eurocentric Gaze, Postcolonial Gothic, Indigenous Visions
Eva Rueschmann
Countering the Eurocentric Gaze? Europe in the Antipodean Filmic Imagination
Janine Hauthal
Death in Paradise: Beauty, Danger, Isolation, and Failure in Christine Jeff's Rain (2001)
Andrea Wright
“The house will come to you”: Domestic Architecture in Contemporary Australian Literature and Film
Ella Jeffery and Emma Doolan
History, Recognition, and the Trauma of Indigenous Enjoyment in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Laurent Shervington
Cathy FREEMAN: Trailblazer, Black Activist, Kuku Yalanji Woman
Felicity Collins
Children, Affect, and National Feelings: Shame in Taika Waititi’s Boy (2010)
Angela Marie Smith
Poetry
A Note on Anne Elder’s Scenario for Summer — Paul Kane
Scenario for Summer — Anne Elder
A Day of Some Confluence — Dennis Nicholson
Trouble — Edith Speers
Art Mistress — Jena Woodhouse
Solitude —Damen O’Brien
Light Observations — Andrew Lansdown
Mud — Sam Morley
A tin kettling —Brendan Ryan
Eastern seagull poem — Susanne Kennedy
Flighty Things — Robyn Rowland
A Kindness — Kevin Hart
What to Expect — Cate Kennedy
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
Interval North — Dominique Hecq
Somebody’s Child — Jena Woodhouse
Genetic Drift — Rose Michael
K.J. — Geoff Goodfellow
From All Over...About Down Under
From Perth . . . About Alf Taylor Book Launch at Centre for Stories
Per Henningsgaard
From Memory . . . About Bruce Sutherland
John Barnes
Reviews
Criticism
David Brooks. Animal Dreams — Nicole Emanuel
Biography
Toby Davidson. Good for the Soul: John Curtin’s Life with Poetry — Nathanael O’Reilly
Memoir
Alf Taylor. God, the Devil and Me — Per Henningsgaard
Murray Bail. He. — Richard Carr
Fiction
Kate Grenville. A Room Made of Leaves — Venus Fultz
Pip Williams. The Dictionary of Lost Words — Jennifer Tilbury
Poetry
Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington. Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry — Kendalyn Mckisick
Kevin Densley. Sacredly Profane — James Roderick Burns
Abstracts
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors
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