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Volume 4, Issue 2
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Letter from the Deputy Editor Welcome to Volume 4, no. 2 of Transnational Literature. My first experience with Transnational Journal of Literature as Deputy Editor has allowed me to reflect more deeply on the nature of the journal and the concept of transnational literature. In the depth and breadth of the contributions national boundaries, both geographical and cultural, are crossed. Literary boundaries, too, are crossed as the journal publishes articles, creative work, reflections and book reviews. The sentiments expressed in the tributes to Professor Bruce Bennett are echoed in the poem by Md Rezaul Haque, In Memoriam Professor Md Enamul Hoque, and the obituary for Stephen Lawrence by Kate Deller-Evans and Debra Zott. Adrian Thurnwald’s Farewell to Associate Professor Richard Hosking strikes a lighter note, paying homage to his revered guru upon his retirement. In the creative writing section two themes emerge. While Year of the Horse by Kim Cheng Boey, Pearly Shells by Christine Williams and Holes in the Skein by Molly Murn highlight the slender threads within a family, Susan Daniels in The Secret and Dennis Wild in Nikolai present the darker side of human relationships. There are rich pickings in the poetry section, among them poems by Ian Gibbins and Nathanael O’Reilly which illustrate aspects of divided societies. We have published a section on News and Views for the second time, as this proved to be popular last time. Again we ask contributors to consider reflections, reports of conferences or accounts of experiences that would be of interest and value. The forty book reviews provide a diversity of themes, interests and opinions, and I’d draw your attention to the review essay by Joost Daalder who draws on a lifetime love and study of Shakespeare while reviewing two Australian books about the playwright. Thanks are due once more to those who undertake peer reviewing, a necessary but time consuming task, one where they bring their expert knowledge and expertise to evaluate and guide contributors. Thanks also to Gay Lynch and Deb Zott for their work as editors of the creative writing sections. I’ll also take this opportunity to thank the editor, Gillian Dooley, who dedicates hours to the journal. They say that no one is indispensable, but I think that Gillian Dooley, as editor of this journal, is an exception to that rule. Emily Sutherland |
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Peer-reviewed Articles | |
Sophia I. Akhuemokhan and H. Oby Okolocha | Prostitution and Personhood: A Reading of Naguib Mahfouz’s The Thief and the Dogs |
Arianna Dagnino | Transcultural Writers and Transcultural Literature in the Age of Global Modernity |
Alzo David-West | Savage Nature and Noble Spirit in Han Sŏrya’s Wolves: A North Korean Morality Tale |
Adnan Mahmutovic | Midnight’s Children: From Communalism to Community |
Sayaka Oki | Anonymity and Signature as a Productive Practice: Ingeborg Bachmann and Jacques Derrida |
Jean-François Vernay | Male Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder? Guys, Guises and Disguise in Patrick White’s The Twyborn Affair |
Review Essay | |
Joost Daalder | Reflections apropos of Two Australian Books on Shakespeare |
News and Views | |
Satendra Nandan | Reading Asia: Musings of a Peripatetic Writer |
Tributes to Professor Bruce Bennett by Members of the Transnational Literature Boards | |
Kate Deller-Evans | Stephen Lawrence – a Tribute |
Adrian Thurnwald | Farewell to Associate Professor Richard Hosking, 27 April 2012 |
Creative writing – Poems: | |
Joan E. Bauer | Four poems: 1. Dreaming of Prague; 2. Bernardo Speaking Spanish; 3. New York Skyline, 1907; 4.Dramatic Monologue: Joseph Brodsky |
Ian Gibbins | Two poems: 1. The Impossibility of Flight; and 2. 100 Words |
Md Rezaul Haque | Four Frames: 1. Down Memory Lane; 2. Adam’s Apple - An Old Story Re-told; 3. Door Keeping; 4. Lover Cancer |
Md Rezaul Haque | In Memoriam: Professor Md Enamul Hoque |
Deb Matthews-Zott | Crossing the Equator |
Nathanael O'Reilly | Three poems: 1. Invisible Borders; 2. Remember Armagh; 3. The Hill of Tara |
Loula S. Rodopoulos | Two poems: 1. Cameo bracelet; 2. Nostos |
Sean Scarisbrick | Two poems: 1. Further Symptoms; 2. Talk Australian For Us |
Syam Sudhakar | Five poems: 1. Green Sun; 2. Below the sun, Above the sea; 3. Water and Earth; 4. Annual Meeting; 5. Kaaladeepakam |
Omila Thounaojam | Where Do I Belong |
Jael Uribe | In the Murdered Peace |
Translation: | |
Jan Owen | Two Poems by Charles Baudelaire: ‘Music’ and ‘The Cry of an Icarus’. |
Creative writing – Prose: |
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Susan Daniels | The Secret |
Kim Cheng Boey | The Year of the Horse |
Molly Murn | Holes in the Skein |
Dennis Wild | Nikolai |
Christine Williams | Pearly Shells |
Reviews – Creative and Life Writing | |
Nicole Anae | Five Seasons by Syd Harrex |
J.C. Bannon | An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna |
Sanghamitra Dalal and Chandani Lokuge | Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories translated and introduced by Mohammad A. Quayum |
Gillian Dooley | Instead of a Book by Diana Athill |
Tony Gibbons | The Riddle of Father Hackett by Brenda Niall |
Winton Higgins | Blue Nights by Joan Didion |
Winton Higgins | Stieg & Me: Memories of a Life with Stieg Larsson by Eva Gabrielsson with Marie-Françoise Colombani |
Alan Johnson | Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters. Volume One: The Early Years (1940-1965); and Volume Two: The Quartet and Beyond (1966-1978) edited by Janis Haswell |
Payal Khurana | Bhog and Other Stories by Ankur Betageri |
Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri | Beautiful Thing: Portrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer by Sonia Faleiro |
Lorenzo Mari | Daddy’s Wings by Milena Agus, translated by Brigid Maher |
Logan Mickel | The Man in Blue Pyjamas by Jalal Barzanji |
Golnar Nabizadeh | Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories (4th edition) edited by Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire |
Jennifer Osborn | Midnight in Peking by Paul French |
Mohammad Saleem | The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam |
Jorge Salavert | Spirit House by Mark Dapin |
Jorge Salavert | Tales, Poems and Songs from the Underwater World by Daran Kamali |
Ruth Starke | The Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea of Home by Geraldine Brooks |
Emily Sutherland | What Remains by Denise Leith |
Nick Turner | The Long Song by Andrea Levy |
Jean-François Vernay | Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland |
Reviews – History, Theory and Criticism | |
Nicole Anae | Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman: Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Martineau, George Eliot by Lisa Scholl |
Paul Ardoin | The Ghosts of Modernity by Jean-Michel Rabaté |
David Callahan | Contemporary Native Fiction of the U.S. and Canada: A Postcolonial Study by Punyashree Panda |
Cecile Cutler | Integrity and Historical Research edited by Tony Gibbons and Emily Sutherland |
Robyn Douglass | Of Rabbits, Morality etc.: The Collected Writings of Walter Murdoch edited by Imre Salusinszky |
Vivek Kumar Dwivedi | Literature of the Indian Diaspora edited by O.P. Dwivedi |
Peter D. Fraser | Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples Unsettle the Nation-State edited by Aloys N.M. Fleischmann, Nancy Van Styvendale and Cody McCarroll |
Alan Johnson | Perennial Empires: Postcolonial, Transnational, and Literary Perspectives edited by Chantal Zabus and Silvia Nagy-Zekmi |
Dymphna Lonergan | Exhuming Passions edited by Katie Holmes and Stuart Ward |
Nicole Moore | Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewett edited and introduced by Fiona Morrison |
Maggie Nolan | A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate about Remote Aboriginal Australia by Diana Austin-Broos |
Jennifer Osborn | Rome by Robert Hughes |
Maria-Sofia Pimentel Biscaia | The Traumatic Imagination: Histories of Violence in Magical Realist Fiction by Eugene L. Arva |
Arnapurna Rath | The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore edited by Mohammad A. Quyaum |
Christine Runnel | Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque: Texts of Contemporary Excess by Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia |
Umme Salma | Conrad in the Public Eye: Biography / Criticism / Publicity edited by John G. Peters |
Kathleen Steele | The Great Australian Novel: A Panorama by Jean-François Vernay |
Corbin Treacy | Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o |
Evelyn Wallace-Carter | On Shakespeare by John Bell |
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