Interpodes: Poland, Tom Keneally and Australian Literary History

Poland features in a number of Keneally’s books and is one of the leading sources of translation for his work. The article explores possible causes and effects around this fact, and surveys some reader responses from Poland. It notes the connections that Keneally’s Catholic background and activist sympathies allow to modern Polish history and assesses the central place of his Booker-winning Schindler’s Ark filmed as Schindler’s List

Mudrooroo, Tripping with Jenny

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Review of Manohar Malgonkar: a study of his complete fiction, by D.S. Rao

Review of Manohar Malgonkar: a study of his complete fiction, by D.S. Ra

The sorrows of young Randolph: Nature/ Culture and colonialism in Stow’s fiction

Helen Tiffin has worked consistently around the possibilities of dismantling the structures and habits of thought of colonialism. In doing so, she has investigated possibilities of counter-formations: to literary canons, to the assumptions underlying canons (1993), to history and its narrative modes (1983), and to colonialist discourse (1987). As her work has progressed, the demolition job on prejudicial boundaries between self and other has shifted direction from place to race to gender and thence to examining the boundaries between humans and nature, people and animals (2001). Throughout, her literary focus has been consistently on the Caribbean, but she has also analysed aspects of the Australian writer, Randolph Stow, notably Tourmaline (1978) and Visitants (1981). Her interest at the time was in texts that worked to undo Eurocentric colonialism, but if she revisited his work now, she might well look at how Stow’s work shows connections between post/colonial cultures and problematic relations between humans and nature. What follows is a sketch of a reading

Obituaries: C.D. Narasimhaiah and RK. Rajan

The study of literature in India has suffered two losses in recent times: firstly, through the death of Prof. C.D. Narasimhaiah in April 2005; and secondly, in Dr P.K. Rajan\u27s fatal accident this January (2006)

Trees, rainbows and stars: The recent work of Albert Wendt

Albert Wendt is the leading literary figure of the Pacific — that is, Oceania (not the Asian and American rim that the media usually mean by ‘Pacific’). Born in Samoa in 1939, Wendt has worked as a student, teacher and writer in Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand, and currently holds the chair of New Zealand literature at the University of Auckland. He has written stories, novels, poetry and essays over the last thirty years, all to do with the effects of colonial incursions on Island cultures and the possibilities of imagining a new complex future that will accord respect to tradition and claim a place in global modernity

Review of Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature edited by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff.

Review of Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature edited by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff

Check your metaphors: Review Essay

Review essay of Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Constructionedited by Daria Tunca and Janet Wilson