EDITOR’S NOTE
The CRNLE Journal is a new series that builds on the traditions of the CRNLE ReviewsJournal, which ran successfully from 1979 to 1995. What began as a reviews journal offering up-to-the-minute reviews on New Literatures in English also functioned as a forum for critical discussion of new texts
Over twenty years, needs change: this is a new journal for a new millennium. While the new series, to be published annually, will continue its review function - focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on New Literatures in English - the current demand for longer critical essays means the balance between essays and reviews must change. We are also pleased to publish short creative pieces or extracts from longer works.
From time to time the Journal will incorporate a special section, rather than a `special issue’ as in the past. This year’s focus is `Sri Lankan and Indian Diasporic Writing’. In 2001 there will be a special section on writing in and about Australia. Occasionally a guest editor will be invited to contribute to these sections.
The CRNLE Journal continues to be produced out of the Centre for Research in the New l.iteratures in English at Flinders University: we are grateful to the Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology for financial assistance that made possible the journals present upgrade. Thanks are due to Michael Deves for his production skills and patience. It is appropriate also to recognise the collaborative efforts of Flinders and Adelaide Universities that have enabled this exciting new series to get under way Finally, our thanks to Wakefield Press for becoming involved in the Journal and providing a wider focus.
Dianne Schwerdt
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note |
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From the Journals of Chitra Fernando: edited by Suvendrini Perera |
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`We can be killed but we can never be silenced’: Narratives of Coexistence |
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in Recent Sri Lankan Fiction • Suvendrini Perera |
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CREATIVE WRITING |
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`In Herbert’s Study’, an excerpt from Tsunami, |
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a novel in progress • Yasmine Goonaratne |
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`Morning Tea’, `Absences’ • Satendra Nandan |
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Excerpts from He Still Comes from Jaffna by Ernest Macintyre |
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`Kite’ • Sudesh Mishra |
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`Her Deep Red scarf’ • Chandani Lokuge |
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ESSAYS/REVIEW ART ICLES |
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First Encounter • Yasmine Gooneratne |
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Novel of Contrasts • Ralph J. Clone |
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The Phases and Guises of the Twentieth-century Sri Lankan |
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Expatriate Novel • Walter Perera |
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So Fleeting the Smile • Ashley Halpe |
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Displaced Relations: Diasporas, Empires, Homelands • Makarand Paranjape |
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Fiji: Republican Rome in the Pacific? • Gillian Dooley |
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‘Unanchored to the World’: Displacement and Alienation in Anil’s Ghost |
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and the Prose of Michael Ondaatje • Brenda Glover |
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Inscrutable, Crooked or Queer? • Alison Broinowski |
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Of Unremarkable, Un-Rushdie-like Lives: ‘The Diasporic `Local’ in the |
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Latest Fiction of Amit Chaudhuri • Debjani Ganguli |
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Evocative and Gently flaunting • Nick Prescott |
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Equal and Opposite • Susan Hosking |
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Personal Responses to India • Lance Brennan |
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Guru in a Beanie in a Guava • Rick Hosking |
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Salman Rushdie and T he Ground Beneath Her Feet • Nick Prescott |
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I he Fragmented Experience • Makarand Paranjape |
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Searching for Clues • Gillian Dooley |
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A Fish Without a Bicycle Annalukshmi’s Choice in |
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Selvadurai’s Cinnamon Gardens • Carmen Wickramagamage |
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More Than a Partition Novel • Ralph J. Crane |
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Macintyre’s Map of a Close Relationship 1983-2000 • Shelagh Goonewardene |
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`Those Difficult Years’ • Gillian Dooley |
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Celebrating Interactions • Paul Sharrad |
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That’s a Fair Thing • Syd Harrex |
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Kureshi’s Mid-life Miscalculation • Elizabeth Edwards |
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Making Flesh • Law Derham |
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Diasporic Maladies • Goldie Osuri |
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Australia, South Asia, and Self-inflicted Otherness • Alison Broinowski |
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OBIT UARY -Judith Wright, 1915-2000 • Thomas Shapcott |
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OBIT UARY - Alec Derwent F Hope AC, on, 1907-2000 • Mark O’Connor |
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`The Voice of the Times’: Fin-de-Siecle and the Voice o( Doom in |
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Thea Astley’s Drylands • Sue Kossew |
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`Shining with Grandeur’: Ngugi wa Thiong’o and the |
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Narration of Kenyan History • Dianne Schwerdt |
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Family Foundations • Sue Thomas |
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Tracing the Caribbean: Elaine Savory’s Jean Rhys • Sonia Wilson |
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`An Arrangement with Different Settings’: Arthur Yap’s |
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The Space of City Trees • Thomas Shapcott |
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Facing Shame • Susan Hosking |
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`You’re Your Own Boss’: Models of Masculinity in Blackfellas • Philip Butterss |
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A Vase of Wild Flowers • Syd Harrex |
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Judith Wright - A Tribute • Jennifer Strauss |
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Short Stories, Poetry Design • Brenda Glover |
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Smouldering in an Inflexible Mould • Mohammad A. Quayum |
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A Queer Kind of Belonging: Identity and Nation in |
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Christos Tsiolkas’s Loaded • Mandy Treagus |
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‘A Growing Sense of Freedom’: Exhibition in Gray’s Poetry • Paul C. Woods |
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Contributors |
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