Volume 7, Issue 1 November 2014

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Letter from the General Editor

Welcome to the November 2014 issue of Transnational Literature.

2014 has been a good year for the journal. Our reach becomes constantly wider – recent statistics show that each of our articles has been downloaded on average more than 600 times, surely a figure most academic journals in print could only dream about. We’re proud of being a free open-access journal, available to anyone with internet access, while maintaining a high standard.

This issue is a typically diverse one. Although each of the peer-reviewed articles focuses on fiction, there is a truly international selection. We have papers on Antiguan expatriate author Jamaica Kincaid, on Russian-Israeli literature, on Rabindranath Tagore, and on Haruki Murakami. There is a review essay on Indian-Danish author Tabish Khair, and a transcript of a speech given at the launch of American-Australian poet Jeri Kroll’s latest book.

Also included is a translation of a story by Kashmiri writer Ali Mohammad Lone (1927-1987).

Seven stories make up our prose creative writing section, with themes ranging from suburban neurosis to literary hero-worship, as well as the big issues – death, ageing, sex, relationships and sexuality. Relationship to place is also important, whether the characters are expatriates or disaffected locals: many of the authors have travelled and lived extensively overseas.

Our poetry editor, Heather Taylor Johnson, is overseas at a writing residency and so we have taken the opportunity of appointing a guest poetry editor for this issue. Alison Flett has solicited a lively collection of poems from her Scottish colleagues, and this makes a special feature within the poetry section, along with a group of other poems from a broad range of writers. Read Alison’s introduction here.

We hope you enjoy the November issue.

List of Contributors Peer-reviewed articles

Eleanor Anneh Dasi ‘Home and Away’: Reconstructing Identity in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy Kylie Moore-Gilbert Aliyah and Identity in Israeli-Russian Literature

Mohammad A. Quayum Humour in Rabindranath Tagore’s Selected Early Short Stories: A Freudian Reading

Heather H. Yeung ‘More than the Sum of its Parts’: Popular Music, Gender, and Myth in Haruki Murakami’s Fiction

Review Essay

Md. Rezaul Haque Colonial Thugs and Metropolitan Things: White Man’s Twin Burdens:

Tabish Khair, The Thing about Thugs Speech

Jan Owen Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems by Jeri Kroll (Wakefield Press, 2013): Speech given at the Launch at Flinders University Library, 15 May 2014

Translation

Ali Mohammad Lone The Void, translated from the Kashmiri by Ishrat Bashir

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Scottish Poetry

Alison Flett (guest editor) Introduction: Looking at the Thistle

Pam Beasant Visitors

Rinansay

Alec Finlay Islands

John Glenday Northeasterly

King Oscar Land Windfall

Yvonne Gray Grave Goods: Tankeringen

Necklace

Richie McCaffery Skein

Howick Wayward Bound

Kevin MacNeil A Buddhist’s Guide to Dealing with Malicious Critics

Kona Macphee Telemetry

Alistair Peebles Here We Go

Chris Powici Rook

Otter Goddess

Wayne Price All Pictures are for Sale Desert Stop

Ian Stephen Abandoned house on tidal island It goes on down

Tim Turnbull The Great Be Empty

Tay – Autumn Christie Williamson Rote

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General Poetry

J.V. Birch Instinct

Kathryn Hummel Travel Notes: Dhaka

Keith Mac Nider The Bridge

Rachael Mead Rapid Learning

Kayaking with a Head Cold Umme Salma My father lives in ‘merica

Thom Sullivan Blush

Rob Walker 7 haiku

Ouyang Yu Medicine

A nation

this is a pretty unhappy country snapshots of an awarding ceremony

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Creative and Life Writing

Michael Armstrong Horticultural Interruptus Matt Constable Ayesha the Obeyed

Joe Milan Names

Sunil Sharma The Man Who Wanted To Write Like Marquez Ron Singer Their Countries of Origin

Lesley Synge Beware, Otherwise

Rob Walker Cigarette

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List of Contributors Book reviews:

Creative and Life Writing

Sadiqa Beg Review of Coal Creek by Alex Miller

Katerina Bryant Review of In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower

Sutapa Chaudhuri Review of Poetry d’Amour 2013: Love Poetry for Valentine’s Day selected by Dennis Haskell

Sutapa Chaudhuri Review of The Double and Other Stories by Maria Takolander Kay Hart Review of Lost River: four albums by Simone Lazaroo Rajender Kaur Review of A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie Lorenzo Mari Review of A History of Silence by Lloyd Jones

Jennifer Osborn Review of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

Murari Prasad Review of The Ruined Nest and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore edited and translated by Mohammad A. Quayum

Jorge Salavert Review of Montebello by Robert Drewe

Umme Salma Review of The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem by Frederick Glaysher

Ruth Starke Review of The Eye of the Sheep by Sophie Laguna

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Emily Sutherland Review of Faded Letters by Maurizio Ascari

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Book Reviews:

History, Theory and Criticism

Rosslyn Almond Review of Literary Fiction: The Ways We Read Narrative Literature by Geir Farner

Sue Bond Review of The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity by Micaela Maftei

Laura Deane Review of Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia edited by Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer

Mathias Donfouet Review of African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis

Jennifer Hein Review of Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony and Memory in Contemporary Culture by Kelly Jean Butler

Alan Johnson Review of Reading Theory Now: An ABC of Good Reading with J.

Hillis Miller by Éamonn Dunne

Adam R. McKee Review of The Feel of the City: Experience of Urban Transformation by Nicolas Kenny

Jennifer Osborn Review of The Censor’s Library by Nicole Moore

Ashwinee Pendharkar Review of Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond edited by Philip Tew

Jill Roe Review of An Unsentimental Bloke: The life and work of C.J. Dennis by Philip Butterss

Christine Runnel Review of Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines edited by Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier

Paul Sharrad Review of Manohar Malgonkar: a study of his complete fiction, by D.S.

Rao

Heather H. Yeung Review of Perspectives on World War I Poetry by Robert C. Evans

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List of Contributors