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Adaptation of A Long Weekend : Alice Springs, Central Australia Craig San Roque , 2004 single work criticism
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 The Long Weekend in Alice Springs
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'The Long Weekend is a graphic novel that has been adapted from an essay that explores the idea of the Cultural Complex; one of Carl Jung’s early ideas about group behaviour that was left largely unexplored until very recently in the academic world.

'Craig San Roque, the author the original essay, acts as narrator and protagonist. He takes the reader throughout a long series of poetic thoughts, places and over the course of a long weekend in the central Australian desert town of Alice Springs whilst he grapples with an analysis of his own culture and the pain which it intentionally and unintentionally inflicts upon other cultures.

'Moving, challenging and dangerous, The Long Weekend is a haunting comic, both shockingly funny and supremely uncomfortable to read. It's images will linger with you after you've placed it upon your bedside table, turned off the lamp and settled into a restless sleep.' (Publisher's blurb)

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  • A graphic novel

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Peculiar Integrations : Adaptations, Experimentations and Authorships in The Long Weekend in Alice Springs Ronnie Scott , Elizabeth MacFarlane , 2018 single work
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;

'This paper investigates approaches to authorship in The Long Weekend in Alice Springs (2013), a graphic adaptation by the Australian artist Joshua Santospirito of a psychoanalytic essay by Craig San Roque (2004). Because the subject of both essay and adapted text is the ability of stories to have lasting effects over time in a space of crisis, this unusual adaptation establishes itself as an unusual site of authorship, whereby multiple authorships create a complicated authority, and stories themselves are shown to be significant. Through its variable positioning of the different roles undertaken by the author, the adaptation struggles with the ongoing challenge of appropriating Indigenous storytelling and suggests a possible way to discuss these stories from the outside. Through analysing paratextual materials and the work itself, this paper shows how nonfiction comics can both convey stories and separate themselves from stories through destabilising notions of creation and authorship.' (Publication abstract)

Translating Culture and Comics Joshua Santospirito , 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 137 2014; (p. 32-37)
'Craig San Roque wrote his essay 'A Long Weekend in Alice Springs' in 2003 for a book called The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society (Brunner-Routledge, 2004). In 2008 I began translating it into a 125-page graphic novel.' (Publication abstract)
What I’m Reading Kieran Finnane , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2014;
Complex Approach to Cultural Question Ronnie Scott , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 July 2013; (p. 24)

— Review of The Long Weekend in Alice Springs Joshua Santospirito , 2013 single work single work graphic novel
Complex Approach to Cultural Question Ronnie Scott , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 July 2013; (p. 24)

— Review of The Long Weekend in Alice Springs Joshua Santospirito , 2013 single work single work graphic novel
Translating Culture and Comics Joshua Santospirito , 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 137 2014; (p. 32-37)
'Craig San Roque wrote his essay 'A Long Weekend in Alice Springs' in 2003 for a book called The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society (Brunner-Routledge, 2004). In 2008 I began translating it into a 125-page graphic novel.' (Publication abstract)
Peculiar Integrations : Adaptations, Experimentations and Authorships in The Long Weekend in Alice Springs Ronnie Scott , Elizabeth MacFarlane , 2018 single work
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;

'This paper investigates approaches to authorship in The Long Weekend in Alice Springs (2013), a graphic adaptation by the Australian artist Joshua Santospirito of a psychoanalytic essay by Craig San Roque (2004). Because the subject of both essay and adapted text is the ability of stories to have lasting effects over time in a space of crisis, this unusual adaptation establishes itself as an unusual site of authorship, whereby multiple authorships create a complicated authority, and stories themselves are shown to be significant. Through its variable positioning of the different roles undertaken by the author, the adaptation struggles with the ongoing challenge of appropriating Indigenous storytelling and suggests a possible way to discuss these stories from the outside. Through analysing paratextual materials and the work itself, this paper shows how nonfiction comics can both convey stories and separate themselves from stories through destabilising notions of creation and authorship.' (Publication abstract)

What I’m Reading Kieran Finnane , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2014;
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