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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... no. 182 Autumn 2006 of Overland est. 1954 Overland
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Pushing Against the Real World : The Case for 'Original' Australian Fiction, Malcolm Knox , single work criticism
Knox believes the future for literary fiction is not as bleak as some other commentators suggest. The place to start, according to Knox, 'is in thinking more about what we already know, in rephrasing our language, in questioning our own assumptions, and in assigning words their true value, rather than today's market price.'
 (p. 4-12)
David Williamson in the Dock : Paranoia, Propaganda and 'The People', Brian Musgrove , single work criticism
Musgrove reviews the columns, articles, radio commentaries and newspaper correspondence that resulted from David Williamson's 'Cruise Ship Australia' address. Musgrove concludes that '[w]hat the principal actors in the 'Cruise Ship Australia' affair ultimately (and unwittingly) did was to provide the resources for a textbook case study: of how contemporary propaganda works, and how a paranoid power-eilte deals with those who speak back to it. It's also a classic expose of how false consciousness is manufactured; and of how the struggle over what values genuinely represent 'the people' remains unresolved.'
 (p. 13-19)
Two Fires : Poetry and Local Government, Philip Mead , single work criticism

Philip Mead reflects on, and develops the themes of, the inaugural Two Fires festival, held in Braidwood, New South Wales in 2005. Focussing on the writing of Judith Wright, Mead argues that Australian literary studies 'has no ethnomethodology ... to "read" activist writers or texts in deictic performance or the relations between the linguistic modes of life-narratives, affect and writing (individual and collective). The relations of poetry and public policy tend to remain inarticulate, phobic.' He further asserts that '[p]art of the difficulty with Wright ... has been in finding terms and methods for the conversation about her writing, including and primarily the poetry, beyond the constricted disciplinary retimes of literary criticism and cultural history.'

Mead also includes a report on the festival contributions provided by Romaine Moreton and Deborah Bird Rose.

 (p. 30-35)
Invisible Women Workers : Feminism, Consciousness and the Novel, Merle Thornton , single work criticism
Thornton's perception of the portrayal of women in realist fiction of the late-20th and early-21st centuries is that 'while Australian women have moved in a big way into the non-domestic workplace, the women in Australian novels have not gone there nearly as much.'
 (p. 36-42)
Potpurrii"Luck", Ugo Rotellini , single work poetry (p. 42)
Salon Saigon, Olga Pavlinova Olenich , single work prose (p. 43-45)
Graphology 503 : Orphic Interiorityi"In conversing with animals, plants, rocks, sand, and the weather,", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 45)
The Brian Johnstone Gallery, Thomas Shapcott , single work prose
Shapcott recalls visits to the Brian Johnstone Gallery in Brisbane during the 1960s and the role played by Johnstone in the formation of Shapcott's artistic appreciation.
 (p. 46-50)
The Fight, Linda Rhodes , single work short story (p. 51)
Highway of Death, Anthony Macris , extract novel (p. 52-57)
Untitledi"Mindful forgetfulness", Felicia Fletcher , single work poetry (p. 57)
You Are Herei"claiming homeland", Nathan Curnow , single work poetry (p. 58)
I Think, Therefore...?i"Like grass on dunes we cling.", Murray Alfredson , single work poetry (p. 58)
Waltzing with M.i"Hear the sound?", Dirk Zadra , single work poetry (p. 59)
The Princei"Beyond the wall of the fortress of paranoia,", Geoffrey Quinlan , single work poetry (p. 59)
The First Roomi"The students in the class were all Chilean,", Bob Morrow , single work poetry (p. 60)
Heati"The lizard lies on hay", Kate Llewellyn , single work poetry (p. 60)
Tequila Sunrisei"Our world sits firmly on these things:", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 61)
Patiencei"a heavy patience", Rory Harris , single work poetry (p. 61)
Villanelle for a Pregnancy Testi"The line is drawn, gradually, in blue,", Chess Haig , single work poetry (p. 62)
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