Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Recentring Water : Thinking with the Chain of Ponds
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'What might thinking with specific waters, and particular watery forms, bring to our understandings of how literature comes to mean? Taking cues from recent work in both the Blue Humanities – inspired by Pacific scholars – and the posthumanities, this article considers examples of recent writing in order to explore what is revealed when focus shifts to the aqueous. What ‘transversal alliances’ (Braidotti) and concomitant limitations are highlighted in writings and readings that take account of water? Thinking with a peculiarly Australian form of fluvial geomorphology – the chain of ponds – I consider four recent texts: John Kinsella’s 'Cellnight'; Natalie Harkin’s ‘Cultural Precinct’; Tony Birch’s The White Girl, and Christos Tsiolkas’s . Thinking with the chain of ponds reveals aspects of ‘hydrocolonialisms’ (Hofmeyr) and immersive ontologies. While all waters are revealed to be operating within the multiple restrictions of the nation state together with anthropogenic climate emergency, a focus on waters reveals possibilities of renewal as well as human and more-than-human connections. Taking this beyond the island continent to trans-Pacific links, I also consider the ways such connections are joyfully celebrated in Lisa Reihana’s indigifuturist video work Groundloop.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Literary Studies vol. 39 no. 1 25 May 2024 28162343 2024 periodical issue

    'We are so pleased to announce the publication of Australian Literary Studies Volume 39, No. 1, with some fascinating literary scholarship.  

    'This issue includes the final PhD Prize winning essay by Evelyn Araluen CorrJames Gourley's exploration of Care for Country in Western Sydney literature; Maggie Shapley's reckoning of the canon through Australian female poets in anthologies; and Mandy Treagus tracking some watery forms. 

    'In addition, you'll find reviews of The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770–1870, reviewed by Kate Darian-Smith, and Murnane, reviewed by Joseph Steinberg.' (Publication summary)

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