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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... vol. 11 no. 1 December 2018 of Transnational Literature est. 2008 Transnational Literature
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2018 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dialogical Numbers : Counting Humanimal Pain in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, Mike Piero , single work criticism
On Pacification : The International and Domestic Referents of an Australian Artwork, Robyn Walton , single work essay

'This is a piece of creative non-fiction merging art commentary, literary analysis, and a personal account of the writer’s research. Changes across time in the writer’s understanding of an Australian painting – Breakfast Piece (1936) by Herbert Badham – are examined, with the writer’s slowness to comprehend the painting’s overt allusion to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Abyssinia) highlighted. The writer’s discovery that Breakfast Piece was reproduced on the covers of a 1985 edition of Eleanor Dark’s 1945 novel The Little Company and a 1991 edition of Elizabeth Harrower’s 1966 novel The Watch Tower provokes an analysis of these authors’ treatment of international geopolitical affairs and local gender relations.'  (Publication abstract)
‘Including China’ in Postcolonial Literary Studies : An Interview with Bill Ashcroft, Lili Zhang (interviewer), single work interview

'Bill Ashcroft is a renowned critic and theorist, a founding exponent of postcolonial theory and co-author of The Empire Writes Back (1989), the first text to examine systematically a field that is now referred to as ‘postcolonial studies’. He is author and co-author of 16 books and over 160 chapters and papers including Edward Said (2001), Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts (2002), Caliban’s Voice: The Transformation of English in Postcolonial Literatures (2008), Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures (2016). He is on the editorial boards for various journals, such as Textual Practice, New Literatures Review, JASAL, Postcolonial Text, to name just a few. The interviewer met Professor Ashcroft at the 16th International Conference of Australian Studies in China (21-23 June 2018, Beijing) and they had a preliminary discussion on the issues concerned in this paper; they agreed to complete a formal dialogue via e-mail. In this interview, Bill Ashcroft clarifies his area of study in postcolonial literatures; he relates world literature with postcolonial literatures and analyses the problem in the interdisciplinary study of world literature; finally, he discusses why and how to include China in postcolonial literary studies.'  (Introduction)
Featured Poet : Andy Jackson, Andy Jackson , single work autobiography
Dispersedi"above the sharp lines of the paddocks", Andy Jackson , single work poetry
Out of Focusi"At a distance, my body leaps to think of him as kin—", Andy Jackson , single work poetry
The Hunchback in the Park Watching Dylan Thomasi"With his heavy brown coat,", Andy Jackson , single work poetry
Petrarchan Sonneti"In Roma—‘Hannibal ad portas! Aie!’—", Stuart Barnes , single work poetry
Ladybirdsi"I try to call you every three weeks to conjure you again.", J V Birch , single work poetry
Componentsi"Here are", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry
Buenos Aires Contemporaryi"The sturdy painter hikes through the swirl", Stuart Cooke , single work poetry
The Fast Train to Asseni"Deer almost as common as cattle,", Steve Evans , single work poetry
In Bed with Metallicai"She moves out of the painting like a metal", Michael Farrell , single work poetry
The Falli"I remember my mother", Rachael Wenona Guy , single work poetry
The Train to Mandalayi"Boys swing between carriages on the train to Mandalay,", Cary Hamlyn , single work poetry
Paris to Flamingoi"framed like this we inch ahead creaking", Rose Hunter , single work poetry
All This Is Blurred and Much Bluer Than It Wasi"and where is the one who says to hell", Rose Hunter , single work poetry
Trench Warfarei"Kenwood House:", Cath Kenneally , single work poetry
Split or Stayi"Split, an ordinary afternoon,", Cath Kenneally , single work poetry
Practisingi"She is in her bedroom practising piano. On the wall above the piano is the picture that", Janet Lee , single work poetry
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