Volume 7, Issue 1
November 2014
Letter from the General Editor
Welcome to the November 2014 issue
of Transnational Literature.
2014 has been a good year for the journal. Our reach becomes
constantly wider – recent statistics show that each of our
articles has been downloaded on average more than 600 times,
surely a figure most academic journals in print could only
dream about. We’re proud of being a free open-access
journal, available to anyone with internet access, while
maintaining a high standard.
This issue is a typically diverse one. Although each of
the peer-reviewed articles focuses on fiction, there is
a truly international selection. We have papers on Antiguan
expatriate author Jamaica Kincaid, on Russian-Israeli literature,
on Rabindranath Tagore, and on Haruki Murakami. There is
a review essay on Indian-Danish author Tabish Khair, and
a transcript of a speech given at the launch of American-Australian
poet Jeri Kroll’s latest book.
Also included is a translation of a story by Kashmiri writer
Ali Mohammad Lone (1927-1987).
Seven stories make up our prose creative writing section,
with themes ranging from suburban neurosis to literary hero-worship,
as well as the big issues – death, ageing, sex, relationships
and sexuality. Relationship to place is also important,
whether the characters are expatriates or disaffected locals:
many of the authors have travelled and lived extensively
overseas.
Our poetry editor, Heather Taylor Johnson, is overseas at
a writing residency and so we have taken the opportunity
of appointing a guest poetry editor for this issue. Alison
Flett has solicited a lively collection of poems from her
Scottish colleagues, and this makes a special feature within
the poetry section, along with a group of other poems from
a broad range of writers. Read Alison’s introduction
here.
We hope you enjoy the November issue.
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Peer-reviewed articles
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| Eleanor Anneh Dasi |
‘Home
and Away’: Reconstructing Identity in Jamaica Kincaid’s
Lucy |
| Kylie Moore-Gilbert |
Aliyah
and Identity in Israeli-Russian Literature |
| Mohammad A. Quayum |
Humour
in Rabindranath Tagore’s Selected Early Short Stories: A
Freudian Reading |
| Heather H. Yeung |
‘More
than the Sum of its Parts’: Popular Music, Gender, and Myth
in Haruki Murakami’s Fiction |
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| Review Essay |
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| Md. Rezaul Haque |
Colonial
Thugs and Metropolitan Things: White Man’s Twin Burdens:
Tabish Khair, The Thing about Thugs |
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| Speech |
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| Jan Owen |
Workshopping
the Heart: New and Selected Poems by
Jeri Kroll (Wakefield Press, 2013): Speech given at the Launch
at Flinders University Library, 15 May 2014 |
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| Translation |
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| Ali Mohammad Lone |
The
Void, translated from the Kashmiri by Ishrat Bashir |
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*Transnational
Literature, November 2014: complete articles in one file
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Special feature:
Scottish Poetry
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| Alison Flett (guest editor) |
Introduction:
Looking at the Thistle |
| Pam Beasant |
Visitors |
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Rinansay |
| Alec Finlay |
Islands |
| John Glenday |
Northeasterly
King Oscar Land
Windfall |
| Yvonne Gray |
Grave
Goods: Tankeringen
Necklace |
| Richie McCaffery |
Skein
Howick
Wayward Bound |
| Kevin MacNeil |
A
Buddhist’s Guide to Dealing with Malicious Critics |
| Kona Macphee |
Telemetry |
| Alistair Peebles |
Here
We Go |
| Chris Powici |
Rook
Otter Goddess |
| Wayne Price |
All
Pictures are for Sale
Desert Stop |
| Ian Stephen |
Abandoned
house on tidal island
It goes on down |
| Tim Turnbull |
The
Great Be Empty
Tay – Autumn |
| Christie Williamson |
Rote |
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*Transnational
Literature, November 2014: complete Scottish poetry section
in one file for ease of downloading or printing* |
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General Poetry
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| J.V. Birch |
Instinct |
| Kathryn Hummel |
Travel
Notes: Dhaka |
| Keith Mac Nider |
The
Bridge |
| Rachael Mead |
Rapid
Learning
Kayaking with a Head Cold |
| Umme Salma |
My
father lives in ‘merica |
| Thom Sullivan |
Blush |
| Rob Walker |
7
haiku |
| Ouyang Yu |
Medicine
A nation
this is a pretty unhappy country
snapshots of an awarding ceremony |
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*Transnational
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| Creative and Life Writing |
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| Michael Armstrong |
Horticultural
Interruptus |
| Matt Constable |
Ayesha
the Obeyed |
| Joe Milan |
Names |
| Sunil Sharma |
The
Man Who Wanted To Write Like Marquez |
| Ron Singer |
Their
Countries of Origin |
| Lesley Synge |
Beware,
Otherwise |
| Rob Walker |
Cigarette |
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*Transnational
Literature, November 2014: Complete Prose Creative and Life
Writing in one file for ease of downloading or printing* |
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List
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Book reviews:
Creative and Life Writing
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| Sadiqa Beg |
Review
of Coal Creek by Alex Miller |
| Katerina Bryant |
Review
of In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower |
| Sutapa Chaudhuri |
Review
of Poetry d’Amour 2013: Love Poetry for Valentine’s
Day selected by Dennis Haskell |
| Sutapa Chaudhuri |
Review
of The Double and Other Stories by Maria Takolander |
| Kay Hart |
Review
of Lost River: four albums
by Simone Lazaroo |
| Rajender Kaur |
Review
of A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie |
| Lorenzo Mari |
Review
of A History of Silence by Lloyd Jones |
| Jennifer Osborn |
Review
of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume |
| Murari Prasad |
Review
of The Ruined Nest and Other Stories by Rabindranath
Tagore edited and translated by Mohammad A. Quayum |
| Jorge Salavert |
Review
of Montebello by Robert Drewe |
| Umme Salma |
Review
of The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem by Frederick
Glaysher |
| Ruth Starke |
Review
of The Eye of the Sheep by Sophie Laguna |
| Kathleen Steele |
Review
of Thicker than Water by Judith Colquhoun |
| Emily Sutherland |
Review
of Faded Letters by Maurizio Ascari |
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*Transnational
Literature, November 2014: Complete Book Reviews (Creative
and Life Writing) in one file for ease of downloading or printing* |
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Book Reviews:
History, Theory and Criticism |
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| Rosslyn Almond |
Review
of Literary Fiction: The Ways We Read Narrative Literature
by Geir Farner |
| Sue Bond |
Review
of The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity
by Micaela Maftei |
| Laura Deane |
Review
of Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia
edited by Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer |
| Mathias Donfouet |
Review
of African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium by Bernth
Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis |
| Jennifer Hein |
Review
of Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony and Memory
in Contemporary Culture by Kelly Jean Butler |
| Alan Johnson |
Review
of Reading Theory Now: An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis
Miller by Éamonn Dunne |
| Adam R. McKee |
Review
of The Feel of the City: Experience of Urban Transformation
by Nicolas Kenny |
| Jennifer Osborn |
Review
of The Censor’s Library by Nicole Moore |
| Ashwinee Pendharkar |
Review
of Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond edited
by Philip Tew |
| Jill Roe |
Review
of An Unsentimental Bloke: The life and work of C.J. Dennis
by Philip Butterss |
| Christine Runnel |
Review
of Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines edited
by Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier |
| Paul Sharrad |
Review
of Manohar Malgonkar: a study of his complete fiction,
by D.S. Rao |
| Heather H. Yeung |
Review
of Perspectives on World War I Poetry by Robert C. Evans |
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*Transnational
Literature,
November 2014: Complete Book Reviews (History, Theory and Criticism)
in one file for ease of downloading or printing* |
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of Contributors |
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