Nicole Anae Nicole Anae i(A147192 works by)
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1 ‘Is Boggabilla Where Bill Takes a Dump?’ Writing an Australian Literary Regionalism : Stories and Poetry Published in Idiom 23 Literary Magazine, 2016–2018 Nicole Anae , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , June no. 54 2019; 'This article aims to explore the representation of what I argue identifies an Australian literary regionalism in stories and poetry published in Idiom 23, Central Queensland University’s literary magazine, over the past three issues, 2016–2018. As editor of Idiom 23 during this time, I have detected in the contemporary writing of regional contributors a heightening interest in expressing a unique sense of place and history through literary elements including, but not limited to, an emphasis on local colour and characterisation, rurality and regional settings, and personal stories of time and place, as well as an idiomatic interest in literary tropes accentuating colloquialisms, regional traditions, dialogic ‘play’, personal and familial histories, Indigenous identity, and distinctive ways of mapping, representing, articulating, and celebrating cultural belonging. Exploring how contributions to Central Queensland University’s Idiom 23 literary magazine over the past three issues, 2016–2018, construct a sense of regionalism and regional identity offers rich potential to not only identify the narratives, stories, or voices ‘naturally’ arising in regional writing practices, but also how perceptions of regionality impact on the ways regional writing is itself expressed through a unique form of Australian literary regionalism.' (Publication abstract)
1 The ‘Punches behind the Punch’ : Poetry as Victim Impact Statement Nicole Anae , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , no. 38 2017; 'Recent years have seen developments in the affective function and textual form of Victim Impact Statements (VIS). First introduced in South Australia with the legislative institution of a new Act – the Criminal Law (sentencing) bill – taking effect in January 1989, VIS have since been adopted by almost every Australian state and territory as material tendered before the court by prosecutors for the purposes of informing the judge of the degree and extent of any loss or damage to property or any physical or mental harm, suffered by a victim as a result of a crime. In this paper, I explore the creative form VISs can take by looking specifically at examples of poetry as VIS. Presenting victims’ accounts of emotional and physical suffering using the form of poetry tracks affective shifts in the cultural expression of emotion and the political forums in which such expressions emerge publicly. From the perspective of humanism, I argue the poetry found in VISs present dual functions, both affective and rational.' (Introduction)
1 Ghostly Visitant at Auckland Creek, Gladstone, 1905 Nicole Anae , 2016 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Specul8 : Central Queensland Journal of Speculative Fiction , June no. 2 2016; (p. 130-135)
1 Writing Murder: Elements of Gothic Horror in Matthew Milat’s ‘meat Axe’ Nicole Anae , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 35 2016; 'Eighteen-year-old Matthew Stephen Milat, the grand-nephew of convicted serial-killer Ivan Milat, wrote a series of poems while in custody for the murder of seventeen-yearold David Auchterlonie in 2010 in the Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales; the same bushland in which Milat’s great-uncle had killed seven backpackers throughout the 1990s. Matthew Milat’s choice to narrate the aftermath of David Auchterlonie’s murder in the genre of poetry quite literally draws this form of writing about death, specifically from the perspective of a real-life teen-killer, toward the macabre fringes of literary and popular culture. This examination of Milat’s verse-writing – ‘Your Last Day,’ ‘Cold Life,’ and ‘Killer Looks And On Evil Side’ – situates an analysis of his poetry against the broader journalistic trend to write the nature of Milat’s crime utilizing elements of both the Gothic family tradition and the monstrous. Shared blood-ties between great-uncle and grand-nephew provided a rich site in framing the perverse convergence of heredity and monstrosity within the teen-killer/serial-killer narrative. In the absence of Gothic literary tradition focussing attention on this form of poetry – by a teen-killer, by a teenkiller with blood ties to a convicted serial-killer – this examination of Matthew Milat’s verse-writing also aims to offer a contribution to this scholarship while simultaneously tracing the contemporary emergence of the Gothic into new sites as an idiosyncratic form of writing murder by a real-life adolescent killer.' (Publication abstract)
1 “She Flings her Elfin Dreams of Mystery” : The Child-Poet Gwen Cope in the Land of “Australian Faery,” 1931–1939 Nicole Anae , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , January vol. 51 no. 1 2013; (p. 21-30) 'Gwen Cope enjoyed a significant reputation as a gifted Australian child-poet throughout the 1930s. Nevertheless, her two collections remain unacknowledged in the history of Australian literature despite their popularity. This article situates Cope's fairy-poetry against the ideological backdrop defined by adult fairy-poets of the 1930s to reveal fundamental discords between the child-poet writing her vision of fairy-folklore and the canonical writers who aimed to re-conceptualize " faery-lore" in the interests of Australian national literature.' (Author's abstract)
1 'Very Scanty Covering for the Chocolate Body': The Art of Burlesque and the Fijian Cricket Team in Australia, 1907-1908 Nicole Anae , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 63 2013; (p. 33-51) 'Press accounts of public appearances by the Fijian Cricket Team that toured Australia in 1907-08 expose broader social trends in contemporary understandings of commercialised sport, popular entertainment and male sexuality. The centrality of the Fijians' apparel to the sexual display within their performances suggests that the team fused humour with a desire to appeal to the massive crowds that patronised their matches - upward of 9,000 spectators at some games. By simultaneously appropriating a national game - cricket - the team engineered a forum for entertainment that confronted Edwardians with illustrations of raw power, physical prowess and near-naked Fijian masculinity. To this day, these reports offer vivid examples of how the team enticed Edwardians with performances combining sport, ethnographic display, and titillation.' (Publication abstract)
1 'My Pen Shall Add a Testimony to Men Noble and Daring' : Poetry, Heroism and the Wreck of the SS Admella (1859) Nicole Anae , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 5 no. 2 2013;
1 'Celebrated Executioner[s]' : Shakespearean Oratory and Space in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Colonial Australia Nicole Anae , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 60 2012; (p. 83-101) 'Examining Australian colonial re-readings of Shakespearean texts outside the formal realm of theatre productions offers a fascinating insight into the multiplicity of Victorian revisions and responses to Shakespeare as a literary form throughout the 1850s and 1860s. The growth of dramatic readings in non-purpose-built venues during the period represents an alteration of form significantly affecting colonial culture and the spaces and conditions in which alterations of form took place. Aside from purpose-built venues, other public spaces used for dramatic readings of Shakespearean texts included annexed rooms built on to, or adjacent to, public houses and saloons, town halls, court houses, showground buildings, schools, Masonic halls, and occasionally - albeit rarely - churches. This article has two aims: to explore the variety of the non-purpose-built social spaces in which re-readings of Shakespearean texts occurred during the mid-nineteenth century; and to examine the social and cultural shifts in attitudes to both the space, and Shakespearean texts, which such re-readings motivated.' Nicole Anae.
1 Untitled Nicole Anae , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 4 no. 2 2012;
— Review of Five Seasons S. C. Harrex , 2011 selected work poetry
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