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Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Serving up Colonisation Instead of Care by Caitlin Prince
They Hunger Violently for it by Marg Hooper
An Almanac of Immeasurable Things by Lachlan Summers
Unable to Retire, and Safely Historicise, the Names of These Disasters, the WMO Retired the Nomenclature Itself
Contents
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'That's Not Us!' Wake in Fright and the Australian Nightmare,
single work
criticism
'Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of Wake in Fright, one of Australian cinema's 197C most unsettling horror movies, as well as one of its most, perceptive works of national self-interrogation. Adapted from Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name and directed by Ted Kotcheff of later First Blood fame, Wake in Fright has attained a semi-mythical status firstly as a `lost movie', only being fully restored for a 2009 re-release, and secondly as a cult film rejected by audiences on its theatrical release and with considerably less influence on the mainstream of Australian cinema than its contemporaries in the Australian Gothic genre.. (Introduction)
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A Change in the Air : Literature, Bombs and Colonial Terror in Climate Literature,
single work
criticism
'Reflecting on Hiroshima, 6 August 1945, Karen Barad writes :
'Time stopped. The internal mechanisms melted...Time died in a flash. Its demise captured in shadows: silhouettes of people, animals, plants, and objects, its last moment of existence emblazoned on walls. Never before was it possible to kill time, not like this. Atomic clocks. Doomsday clocks. The hands of time indeterminately positioned as creeping toward the midnight of human and more-than-human existence, moving, and no longer moving.' (Introduction)
- Sweet Anticipation, single work short story (p. 51-56)
- Hide and Seeki"Sitting on a bench in Central Park, it's Friday afternoon in spring and I'm thinking thoughts in", single work (p. 57)
- On Arriving in Australia, 27 December 2000i"as if numbers", single work poetry (p. 57)
- Our Songi"cull monday", single work poetry (p. 58-60)
- Domestici"For a while I pick the glass", single work poetry (p. 61)
- My Life as an Artisti"I lost sleep last night-so tired my head is a potato. My life was always art, but work made it", single work poetry (p. 62)
- Logi"dream's letterhead lies exhausted", single work poetry (p. 63)
- A Message from the NRMAi"plummeting / south", single work poetry (p. 64-65)
- The Sunday Suni"The argued over the correct way to drain the sink. A chocolate cake buckled und4er the", single work poetry (p. 66)
- Column Irrelevanti"Meet no", single work poetry (p. 67)
- I Am the Sea, single work short story (p. 68-74)
- Using the Method, single work short story (p. 75-80)
- Australians at Work, single work short story (p. 81-86)
- Breathing Lessons, single work short story (p. 87-93)