| Letter from the Editor |
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| Special feature: Literary Transculturations. Guest Editor: Jena Habegger-Conti |
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| Jena Habegger-Conti |
Letter from the Guest Editor |
| Anne Holden Rønning |
Literary Transculturations and Modernity: Some Reflections |
| John McLeod |
Sounding Silence: Transculturation and its Thresholds |
| Joel Kuortti |
Transnational Literary Slippages and Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses |
| Ulla Rahbek |
Uniquely local? Reading Manjula Padmanabhan’s Short Story ‘Feast’ |
| Anne Sophie Haahr Refskou |
Can Transcultural Theatre Raise the Dead? Exploring Kaj Munk’s Ordet (The Word) via Peter Brook’s Essentialist Aesthetic |
| Jena Habegger-Conti |
‘Beautiful Infidels’ and ‘Poisonous Fruits’: Expressing and Contesting the Transcultural Tradition of The Thousand and One Nights |
| Erik Falk |
Translating Modernity: Charles Mungoshi’s Modernist Aesthetic Space |
| Kamal Sbiri |
Writing Refugee in the Era of Displacement: Reflections on Poetry |
| Milda Danyte |
Choosing Self-Hatred: How Canadian Ethnic Minority Novels of the 1950s Reflect Racist Ideas Propagated Earlier by the Dominant Majority |
| Rūta Šlapkauskaitė |
Bears, Bodies and Boundaries in Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Novel |
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| Articles |
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| Nicholas Birns |
The Solid Mandala and Patrick White's Late Modernity |
| Md. Rezaul Haque |
The Nation and One of Its Fragments in Kanthapura |
| Diana Jovaišienė |
Herkus Kunčius’ Novel The Ornament as a Postmodernist Analysis of Contemporary Lithuanian Society |
| Holly E. Martin |
Falling Into America: The Downside of Transnational Identities in Ha Jin’s A Good Fall |
| Umme Salma |
Woman and the Empire in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock: A Rereading |
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| Review Essay |
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| Dorothy Driver |
Trauma, Memory and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews edited by Ewald Mengel, Michela Borzaga and Karin Orantes |
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| Interviews |
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| Gillian Dooley |
Walking on Graves: An Interview with Amy T. Matthews |
| Sandra L.M. Rota |
‘The Globalisation of Ideas and Thoughts is a Supremely Hopeful Development’: An Interview with Altaf Tyrewala |
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| Translation |
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| Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain |
Woman’s Downfall [‘Istrijatir Abanati’] translated and introduced by Mohammad A. Quayum |
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| News and Views |
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| Gillian Dooley |
Fiji without Snorkelling: a report from the Fiji Literary Festival, October 2011 |
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| Creative writing – Poetry: |
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| David Adès |
A Girl, Her Mother, and Me |
| David Adès |
Gesher Haziv 1974 |
| David Adès |
Snapshot at Maedan Beach |
| David Adès |
Step After Step |
| David Adès |
Yesterday’s Feast |
| Yiorgos Anagnostou |
-Αμέeriκα |
| Yiorgos Anagnostou |
Pale Imitation |
| Claudia Grinnell |
Damaged Women |
| Claudia Grinnell |
In the Room of Lost Things |
| Susan Gorgioski |
Ballast |
| Dean Gui |
Good Laundry Day |
| Md. Rezaul Haque |
Comrades, March on |
| Md. Rezaul Haque |
For J.: An Elegy |
| Deb Matthews-Zott |
Adelaide |
| Loula S. Rodopoulos |
Epistrophe |
| Loula S. Rodopoulos |
Rocks of Resistance |
| Loula S. Rodopoulos |
Township |
| Ian C. Smith |
That Hot Night |
| Ian C. Smith |
Wells-next-the-Sea |
| Lesley Synge |
Excursion to Jiri San before the mid-term holiday |
| Heather Taylor Johnson |
linger on |
| Heather Taylor Johnson |
Two Trees |
| Heather Taylor Johnson |
Waterfall |
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| Creative writing – Prose: |
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| Jonathan Bellot |
Viola and the Passing of the Ghost Train |
| Chalsey Dooley |
A Signature – in Blood: Based on a True Story |
| Catherine McKinnon |
Will Martin |
| Lesley Synge |
Heaven’s Gate |
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Reviews – Creative and Life Writing: |
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| Sophie Alexander |
Tripping Over Feathers: Scenes in the Life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams: A Narrative of the Stolen Generations by Peter Read |
| Wendy Alexander |
Ali Abdul v the King: Muslim Stories from the Dark Days of White Australia by Hanifa Deen |
| Craig Billingham |
I Hate Martin Amis Et Al by Peter Barry |
| Nicholas Birns |
A Whistled Bit of Bop: Poems by Ken Bolton |
| Sue Bond |
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson |
| Vivek Kumar Dwivedi |
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink |
| Tina Giannoukos |
Collected Poems: Francis Webb edited and introduced by Toby Davidson |
| Susan Gorgioski |
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga |
| Sneja Gunew |
Her Father’s Daughter by Alice Pung |
| Kay Hart |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford |
| Kay Hart |
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht |
| Elisabeth Holdsworth |
The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom |
| Elisabeth Holdsworth |
Iphigenia in Forest Hills by Janet Malcolm |
| Hannah Kent |
Animal People by Charlotte Wood |
| Gay Lynch |
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville |
| Gay Lynch |
Those Who Come After by Elisabeth Holdsworth |
| Jennifer Osborn |
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks |
| Punyashree Panda |
Black Swan by Eileen Harrison and Carolyn Landon |
| Miriam Räthel |
The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma |
| Loula S. Rodopoulos |
The Reinvention of Love by Helen Humphreys |
| Loula S. Rodopoulos |
Surface to Air by Jaya Savige |
| Christine Runnel |
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb |
| Susan Sheridan |
Primavera, or the Time of your Life by Giulia Giuffrè |
| David Sornig |
Prohibited Zone by Alistair Sarre |
| Ruth Starke |
Gioconda by Lucille Turner |
| Ruth Starke |
Here and There by A.A. Gill |
| Heather Taylor Johnson |
Autumn Laing by Alex Miller |
| Heather Taylor Johnson |
Love in the Years of Lunacy by Mandy Sayer |
| Heather Taylor Johnson |
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott |
| Humphrey Tranter |
Bombs and Butterflies: A Child’s War by Etiennette Fennell |
| Graham Tulloch |
Marcus Clarke by Cyril Hopkins, ed. Laurie Hergenhan, Ken Stewart, and Michael Wilding |
| Lesley Wyndram |
Loose: A Wild History by Ouyang Yu |
| Debra Zott |
End of the Night Girl by Amy T. Matthews |
| Debra Zott |
Five Bells by Gail Jones |
| Debra Zott |
Waltzing With Jack Dancer: a Slow Dance With Cancer by Geoff Goodfellow, Grace Goodfellow and Randy Larcombe |
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| Reviews – History, Theory and Criticism: |
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| Sue Anderson |
Nharangga wargunni bugi-buggillu: A Journey through Narungga History by Skye Krichauff |
| Ingrid Birgden |
Journeying and Journalling: Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing edited by Giselle Bastin et al. |
| Susan Carson |
Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature edited by Nathanael O’Reilly |
| Gillian Dooley |
A Future for Criticism by Catherine Belsey |
| Victoria Haskins |
The Protectors by Stephen Gray |
| Heidi Ing |
Germans: Travellers, Settlers and their Descendants edited by Peter Monteath |
| David Palmer |
The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track by Craig Collie and Hajime Marutani |
| Eleni Pavlides |
Making Trouble by Robert Manne |
| Jorge Salavert |
Australia and Galicia: Defeating the Tyranny of Distance / Australia e Galicia: vencendo a tiranía do afastamento, edited by María Jesús Lorenzo Modia and Roy C. Boland Osegueda |
| Umme Salma |
Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Suvir Kaul |
| Michael X. Savvas |
Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World edited by Nels Pearson and Marc Singer |
| Kathleen Steele |
The King James Bible after 400 years: Literary Linguistic and Cultural Influences edited by Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones; Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language by David Crystal |
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| Contributors |
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