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ON GLOBALISATION AND POSTCOLONIAL CULTURE
Vol. 66, no. 2, 2007
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Editorial

Ian Britain Before and After

Fiction

Stories by Adib Khan, Sophie Cunningham, Sunil Badami, Bon-Wai Chou, Michael Meehan, Sandy Jeffs, Beryl Fletcher, Michael Crane

Comment

Stephen Muecke  Running out of Time
How Australia’s cultural identity might survive the pressure of postcolonial imperatives

Review Essay

Dipesh Chakrabarty  The Illusion of ‘Identity’
How identity politics today may be bedevilled by misconceptions of identity 

Essays and Memoirs

Kim Cheng Boey  From the Hotel Maria
Has postmodernity and globalisation met its match in the city of Kolkata?

Chandani Lokuge  Waters of Desire
Measuring the force of a ubiquitous element of Sri Lankan life and literature

David Hanan  Fellow Travellers

What newsreels and documentaries about Asia reveal of the history of Australia’s geopolitical attitudes

Andrew Hassam  Songs and Dance and Dresses
The cultural ramifications of Bollywood and the risks of its recent international popularity

Peter Snow  Global Dancing

On an extraordinary melding of Indian, Australian and Japanese choreographic traditions

Peter Goldsworthy  Ever The Twain
On East–West literary links and the biological roots of cultural hybridity
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Denise Cuthbert  Whose English is It, Anyhow?
How some traditional tools of Western dominance may be fruitfully adapted by former colonial nations

Amit Chaudhuri  The Novel After Globalisation
A leading novelist assesses the present and future condition of his art form
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David Carter  After Postcolonialism
On the current state of Australian literary studies

Kim Scott  Covered up with Sand
On the continuing role of regional culture in our so-called globalised or postcolonial world

Jennifer Strauss  No Place Like Home
Past meanings of home and their pertinence to the ‘globalised’ world.

Andrew Ng  The Wider Shores of Gothic
Tracing a Gothic tradition in Australian and contemporary ‘Australasian’ fiction

Gert Reifarth  Born in the GDR
An émigré East German recalls his birthplace in the light of the film The Lives of Others and the book Stasiland
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Naomi Manuell  Valley Boys
On the geeks behind Google and e-Bay
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Lyndel Rowe  The Day The Earth Caught Fire

On the capricious faces of global warming¾if that’s what it is

Interviews

Robert C. Morgan  Drawn to Roses
Talking to artist Denise Green

Mark Owen  Sing for Me, Gypsy
Talking to tenor Dennis O’Neill

Cinema

Damon Young  Sparta for our Times
Why 300 in 2007?

Brian McFarlane  All Over the Place
On Babel and Blood Diamond as manifestations of the globalising of cinema production

Poetry

Poems by Peter Porter, Pooja Mittal, Sarah Day, Sarah-Jane Norman,
Carolyn Leach-Paholski,Peter Coghill, Rose Lucas, Genevieve Osborne, Kevin Gillam, Ian C. Smith, Jennifer Compton, Lenny Bartulin, Peter Rose, Helen Parsons, Jo McInerney, Lucy Holt, Kathryn Lomer, Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen, James Stuart, John Kinsella, Jane Gibian.

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