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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 “Why Waste Lines on Achille?” : Tracing the Critical Discourse on Postcolonial Poetry through Untimeliness to the Present
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'In “Why Waste Lines on Achille?”: Tracing the Critical Discourse on Postcolonial Poetry through Untimeliness to the Present, Lucy Van notes that the scholarship on postcolonial poetry has tended to be somewhat belated to postcolonial studies...' (Vickery and Alizadeh, p 7)

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  • Epigraph:

    Why waste lines on Achille, a shade on the sea-floor?

    Because strong as self-healing coral, a quiet culture is branching...

    The crab's anabasis

    Scuttles under his wake, because this is the true element,

    Water, which commemorates nothing in its stasis.

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    y separately published work icon Southerly The Political Imagination : Postcolonialism and Diaspora in Contemporary Australian Poetry vol. 73 no. 1 2013 6482077 2013 periodical issue 2013 pg. 22-39
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22-39 “Why Waste Lines on Achille?” : Tracing the Critical Discourse on Postcolonial Poetry through Untimeliness to the Presentsmall AustLit logo Southerly
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