Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906061
Nancy James
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906063
María José Candela
Too much is trying to be said in this passage. Both the ship and the magistrate appear to be offering their perspective in this sentence, and Tarwin might be trying to get too much out of what could be a simple, beautiful image. Imagine the last two phrases standing alone in a sentence: “Now mangroves with their green-topped twisted roots squirm in the shallow waters under the drizzle, adrift, thick impassable mangroves with their flecks of birds.” This sentence creates a beautiful, living image, one uncluttered from the confused thoughts created by the first half of the sentence. A lot of potential dwells in these pages. The book has its beautiful and beautifully tense moments, moments that breathe life into characters. The sad truth is that not every moment of a novel can convey beauty or hit with the same depth. Tarwin’s subsequent novels will, I hope, find that balance that might allow readers to understand the dull-yet-important moments clearly, which will allow them to cherish even more those moments of depth at which he excels.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906059
Carolyn Stice
Robert Harris’s The Gang of One, Selected Poems is divided into six sections and represents a lifetime of work. Five of the sections contain selections from specific collections, while the sixth section is a mash-up of uncollected poems. Unfortunately, because the sections are fairly unbalanced in length (some are quite short; others are very long in comparison), it is difficult to get a clear picture of the collections that each section represents. For longtime fans of Harris, this book might provide a way to look back on past favorites, but for those new to his work, the book has the feel of a tasting menu. Like other books of selected poems, it does not give us a clear picture of what the poet is hoping to accomplish. Another issue with the selected poems model is that Harris’s many experiments with form and style, all of which are liberally displayed in the book, feel disjointed and somewhat random, the one exception to this being the selection from his collection JANE, Interlinear & Other Poems, which includes several multipart poems in which Harris has been clearly methodical in his choices to use form to represent various voices within these sections. This part succeeds because we are given enough context to understand what he is trying to achieve. Other parts of the book are less convincing. This failure could be either because readers are unable to see the larger picture of a specific collection or because at some stages in his career, Harris just was not as adept at using form to meet his purpose. For example, in the poem “Australian Rules,” in The Cloud Passes Over, Harris establishes a pattern of playing with white space on the page and with indentation and line lengths, only to completely abandon that pattern for traditional stanzas on the second page of the poem. When such a choice is made with a clear intention to which the reader can relate, it can work, but in this instance Harris’s method seems sloppy. This lack of unity is further amplified by the fact that Harris appears to have no one distinct style. While some themes repeat throughout, each of the sections is markedly different, presumably reflecting some of what the poet was trying to accomplish in the original anthologies. The trouble with such a setup is that the poems are presented out of context; thus, their individual failings become more magnified. Harris is undoubtedly talented and at times displays a keen eye for relaying details and setting a scene; he is also clearly a lover of adjectives and is not shy about using them to excess. A fair number of the poems are so verbally dense that a reader may struggle to find the heart of the work. For example, in “Old Sailors at the Memorial,” he writes,
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906035
Rebecca Johinke
Abstract:This article locates a number of 1970s Australian horror films in relation to British and American biomedical horror films featuring characters with disability who are gifted with telekinesis (making them "supercrips") and characters who are in a coma and labeled "vegetables." It employs scholarship by Paul Longmore, Matthew Norden, Angela Smith, Paul Darke, Robert Cettl, Sami Schalk, and others to interrogate how Australian genre film represents disability on-screen. An argument is made that while Ozploitation films like The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) and the first Mad Max film (1979) center on the car and mobility in Australian culture, Richard Franklin's Patrick (1978) draws attention to masculinity, immobility, and disability. Tapping into tropes about "monstrous" disabled others, Franklin creates a memorable disabled protagonist who evokes fear and dread via his telekinetic powers while also drawing attention to the plight of patients who are the victims of medical malpractice. A hyperbolic 2013 remake directed by Mark Hartley also explores the theme of masculinity and mobility and further exploits the Oedipal theme and the cure-or-kill trope. Both the original and the adaptation, this article argues, mine horror stereotypes about disability while also creating a character who is powerful rather than a passive object of pity.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906032
Liz Shek-Noble
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906064
B. Frentzko
{"title":"Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down (review)","authors":"B. Frentzko","doi":"10.1353/apo.2022.a906064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apo.2022.a906064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41595,"journal":{"name":"Antipodes-A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature","volume":"113 3 1","pages":"168 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91023476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906028
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
{"title":"Night Stitches (A Cento)","authors":"Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon","doi":"10.1353/apo.2022.a906028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apo.2022.a906028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41595,"journal":{"name":"Antipodes-A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature","volume":"67 1","pages":"16 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74301282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906058
John Scheckter
{"title":"The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature ed. by Jean-François Vernay (review)","authors":"John Scheckter","doi":"10.1353/apo.2022.a906058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apo.2022.a906058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41595,"journal":{"name":"Antipodes-A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature","volume":"17 1","pages":"158 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81954401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906062
David Aubuchon
{"title":"Daylight by Ben Tarwin (review)","authors":"David Aubuchon","doi":"10.1353/apo.2022.a906062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apo.2022.a906062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41595,"journal":{"name":"Antipodes-A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature","volume":"87 1","pages":"164 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82205661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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