EDITOR'S NOTE
T he CRNLE Journal is a new series that builds on the traditions of the CRNLE Reviews J ournal , 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 `Writing from and about Australia'.
Dianne Schwerdt
CONTENTS
Breaking the Silence: Aboriginal Life Narratives in South Australia |
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• Susan Hosking |
9 |
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The Blue Suitcase • Rebekah Oarkson |
25 |
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Stories • Thomas Shapcott |
30 |
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Murdering the Muse: Creativity and Violence in |
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Sue Woolfe's Painted Woman • Sue Kossew |
32 |
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Writing Ned Kelly into Imaginative History • Trevor Byrne |
42 |
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The `Empty Highway' and the `Yelling Silence': Moving Beyond |
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Nikki Gemmell's Landscapes • Emily Potter |
47 |
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`Casual Kindness and Causeless Cruelty': |
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Michael Meehan's The Salt of Broken Tears • Michael Deves |
53 |
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Belated Birthday Lunch • Syd Harrex |
60 |
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Hearts & Minds • Lyn Jacobs |
61 |
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Rain in the Courtyard • Thomas Shapcott' |
63 |
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Unruly Subjects in Southern African Fiction: Writing and Regeneration |
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in the Fiction of Bessie Head, Zoe Wicomb, Tsitsi Dangarembga |
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and Yvonne Vera • Dorothy Driver |
65 |
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Gender, Race and lntertextuality in Wide Sargasso Sea • Rosemary Moore |
94 |
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Malu and Fetu: Sia Figiel's They Who Do Not Grieve and the |
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Postcolonial Tattoo • Mandy Treagus |
105 |
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Post Post Office • Graham Rowlands |
114 |
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Writing `Incommensurable Histories': Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood |
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• Amanda Nettelbeck |
115 |
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An Uneven Example for Students • Sue Thomas |
122 |
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Home and Away Singaporean Style • Syd Harrex |
124 |
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The Sirs • Graham Rowlands |
127 |
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Malaysian Literature in English: Challenges and Prospects |
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in the New Millennium • Mohammad A. Quayum |
128 |
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Humour as Resistance in Adib Khan's Seasonal Adjustments |
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and Teo Hsu-Ming's Love and Vertigo • Yvette Tan |
141 |
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Consuming the Exotic Oriental Woman: |
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Butterflies, Books and Shanghai Baby • Sandra Lyne |
147 |
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Fractal Intricacies: A Queer Map of Ethnicity, Sexuality and |
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Class in Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded and Ana Kokkinos's Head On |
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• Josh Peisach |
153 |
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Christianity and Islam in Serenades • Rebecca Pannell |
165 |
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Some Take Wing Sooner Than Others • Syd Harrex |
171 |
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