Publications

Antipodean China

Books

Jose, Nicholas and Benjamin Madden, eds., Antipodean China (Sydney: Giramondo, 2020).

Song, Xianlin and Nicholas Jose, eds., Everything Changes: Australian Writers and China: A Transcultural Anthology (Crawley, Western Australia: UWAP, 2019).

Articles

Jose, Nicholas. ‘Regarding Lady Precious Stream: A Theatrical Translation’, A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation ,1919-2019, ed. Leah Gerber and Lintao Qi (London: Routledge, 2020).

Jose, Nicholas. ‘Gifts from China’, Griffith Review, July 2018.

Jose, Nicholas. ‘Qiu Miaojin: The Bittersweet’, Mascara Literary Review, 6 June 2018.

Jose, Nicholas. ‘Review of Lunar Inheritance by Lachlan Brown’, Mascara Literary Review, 6 June 2018.

Jose, Nicholas, ‘Review of A New Literary History of Modern China‘, Australian Book Review, Jan-Feb, 2018, pp. 15-16.

Tamburello, Giusi. ‘A Literary Fascination with China. Three Contemporary Novels by “Foreign” Writers‘, Asian Culture, no. 43, December 2019, pp. 44-64.

Wu Qi. Trans Simon Wang. ‘January 2020: Learning to Swim Drowning’, Sydney Review of Books, 14 April 2020.

Book Chapters

Jose, Nicolas,  ‘Transcultural Affinities: In Praise of Wang Zuoliang’, in Transcultural Encounters in Knowledge Production and Consumption (ed. by Xianlin Song and Youzhong Sun) (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2018), pp. 65-80

Papers and Talks

Coetzee, John. ‘Outstanding Work in an Ideal Direction’, Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature Workshop – Antipodean China (The University of Adelaide, 2017).

Denham, Ben. ‘Ocean Cosmopolis, Forest City: Ecology, Diversity, Culture’, The 4th China Australia Literary Forum (Guangzhou, 2017).

Etherington, Ben. ‘Literary Meridians’, Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature Workshop – Antipodean China (The University of Adelaide, 2017).

Jones, Gail. ‘Mobility and Place’, The 4th China Australia Literary Forum (Guangzhou, 2017).

Jones, Gail. ‘The Four Dreams of Lu Xun’ (literary reading). Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature Workshop – Antipodean China (The University of Adelaide, 2017).

Jose, Nicholas. ‘Antipodean China: Imagining a Literary Space’,World Literatures and the Global South, U of Sydney, 23-25 August 2019.

Jose, Nicholas. ‘Antipodean China’ (lecture), Lu Xun Academy, Beijing, 6 November 2018.

Jose, Nicholas. ‘Occasional Stories that Scrape at the Heart’, Foreword, Beth Yahp, The Red Pearl and Other Stories (Sydney: Vagabond, 2017).

Trayhurn, Samantha. ‘Reflections in Collage’, Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature Workshop – Antipodean China (The University of Adelaide, 2017).

Uhlmann, Anthony. ‘The Value of Criticism’, The 4th China Australia Literary Forum (Guangzhou, 2017).

Uhlmann, Anthony. ‘Universality of Crisis: Language, Intuition and Understanding’, Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature Workshop (The University of Adelaide, 2017).

Wright, Alexis. ‘Literature, Mobility and Place’, The 4th China Australia Literary Forum,(Guangzho, 2017).

Wright, Alexis. ‘Aboriginal Cosmopolitanism and China’, Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature Workshop – Antipodean China (The University of Adelaide, 2017).

Media

Oral Storytelling

Books

Wright, Alexis, Tracker (Sydney: Giramondo, 2017).

Feature Documentaries

Denham, Ben, dir., with Alexis Wright, prodr., Straight from the Heart (40 min.).

Etherington, Ben Alexis Wright, prodrs, Nothing but the Truth (52 min.), AWAYE! ABC Radio National, 8 June 2019.

Articles

Wright, Alexis. ‘Want to Stop Australia’s Fires? Listen to Aboriginal People’, The New York Times, 15 January 2020.

Wright, Alexis. ‘A Self-Governing Literature’, Meanjin Winter 2020.

Wright, Alexis, ‘The Road Ahead is Hard. Now is Not the Time to Kill Off Studies in the Humanities’, The Guardian, Australian Edition, 22 June 2020.

Wright, Alexis, ‘The Ancient Library and a Self-Governing Literature’, Sydney Review of Books, 28 June 2019.

Wright, Alexis, ‘A Journey in Writing Place’, Meanjin Quarterly, Winter 2019.

Wright, Alexis, ‘Telling the Untold Stories: Alexis Wright on Censorship’, Overland, 8 February 2019.

Wright, Alexis, ‘The Power and Purpose of Literature’, Meanjin Quarterly, Summer 2018.

Wright, Alexis, ‘What Happens when You Tell Somebody Else’s Story?’, Meanjin Quarterly, Summer 2016.

Papers and talks

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Alexis Wright: Relation in Life and and Relation in Art’, Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Annual Conference. 29 June -2 July, 2020.

Wright, Alexis. ‘Teachings From Australian First Nations Author Alexis Wright – Thinking About Writing Climate Change Fiction’. Global Landscape Forum (GLF) Bond International Conference 2020. 3 June 2020.

Wright, Alexis. ‘Signposts: Stories For Our Fragile Times (Alexis Wright in Conversation with Storytellers)’. State Library Victoria. 2020.

Wright, Alexis, Murrandoo Yanner, Gavin Singleton and Phillemon Mosby (hosted by Brenda L Croft), ‘CIAF Symposium – Climate Change’, Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair, (14-23 August 2020), 18 August 2020.

Wright, Alexis in conversation with Ben Etherington, ‘Warriors of the Imaginary: Alexis Wright on the influence of Caribbean writers’, Caribbean Meridians, Australian Association for Caribbean Literature biennial conference, Writing and Society Centre, WSU, 2019.

Walden, Clarence, ‘Address and Q&A/Clarence Walden: Gangalidda Man from Queensland’s Gulf of Carpentaria’, World Literatures and the Global South Conference, The University of Sydney, 2019.

Media

Brown, Phil. ‘Author Alexis Wright Wins Stella Prize for Women’s Literature’, The Courier Mail, 12 April 2018.

Browning, Daniel. ‘Alexis Wright Wins the Stella’, AWAYE! 14 April 2018.

Convery, Stephanie. ‘Alexis Wright Wins Stella Prize for “Majestic” Biography of Tracker Tilmouth’, The Guardian, 12 April 2018.

Daylight, Tegan Bennett, ‘The Australian Book You Should Read Next: Tracker by Alexis Wright’, The Guardian, Australian Edition, 13 July 2020.

Dunn, Amelia. ‘Indigenous Author Wins Prestigious Prize for Unconventional Biography on Tracker Tilmouth’, NITV News, April 2018.

Etherington, Ben. ‘It was like a Library Being Burned to the Ground, but these Oral Histories are Bringing it Back’, ABC News Online, 12 July 2019.

Etherington, Ben, ‘Alexis Wright Wins 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, an Epic Feat of Aboriginal Storytelling’, The Conversation, 12 April 2018.

Jones, Gail, ‘Cleansing Ceremonies in Germany Mark a Homecoming and a Shift in Cultural Understanding’, Guardian, 29 November 2019.

Kelly, Fran. ‘Alexis Wright Wins Stella Prize for her Collective Memoir of the Late Aboriginal Leader Tracker Tilmouth’, RN Breakfast, April 2018.

Klajman, Jess (producer). ‘Alexis Wright on her Book, Tracker and the Sydney Writers’ Festival’, 2ser 107.3, 18 April 2018.

Morris, Linda. ‘Alexis Wright’s Unconventional Biography Wins the Stella Prize’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2018.

Perez, Philippe (interviewer). ‘Alexis Wright Remembers Tracker Tilmouth’, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, 8 January 2018.

Pople, Andrew (Producer). ‘Great Conversations – Alexis Wright’, 2ser 107.3, 14 April 2018.

Priestley, Angela (interviewer). ‘”I Remember Working Hard, and Constantly”: Alexis Wright Wins Stella Award’, Women’s Agenda, 12 April 2018.

Winch, Tara June, ‘The Australian Book You’ve Finally Got Time For: Carpentaria by Alexis Wright’, The Guardian, Australian Edition, 4 June 2020.

Southern Encounters

Books

Driver, Dorothy (editor). A Book of Friends: In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2020).

Articles

Halford, James, ‘Southern Encounters 2: Writing the South in Sydney’, Sydney Review of Books, 25 February 2020.

Book Chapters

Etherington, Ben, ‘Worlds, World-Making, and Southern Horizons’, in The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee, ed. Jarad Zimbler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 168-184.

Papers and Talks

Etherington, Ben, ‘The Realness of the South: Coetzee’s Southern Meridian’, Modern Languages Association Convention 2019, Chicago, January 2019.

Etherington, Ben, ‘Style Worlds and the Read South’, Travelling with Coetzee: Other Arts, Other Languages, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford University, September 2017.

Jones, Gail, ‘Dark Southness’, Globalized Regionalism: Shared Patterns and Distinctive Histories of the Southern Hemisphere Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, September 2018.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Other Worlds: Literature and Common Notions’, World Literatures and the Global South Conference, The University of Sydney, 23-25 August 2019.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature’, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, 7-10 March 2019, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘An Idea of the South’, Writing and Society Research Centre Research Seminar ‘Ideas of the South’, Western Sydney University, 23 March 2018.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘The Idea of the South’, Further South: A Roundtable, The Department of English and Creative Writing, The University of Adelaide, 15 February, 2018.

Wright, Alexis, ‘A Self-Governing Literature: Who Owns the Map of the World?’, World Literatures and the Global South Conference, The University of Sydney, 23-35 August 2019.

Media

Attridge, Derek, ‘The South According to Coetzee’, Public Books, 25 September 2019.

Dialogues

Books

Etherington, Ben and Jarad Zimbler, eds, The Cambridge Companion to World Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Uhlmann, Anthony, ed, Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2022).

Uhlmann, Anthony, ed, Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020).

Uhlmann, Anthony, J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction (New York: Bloomsbury, 2020).

Articles

Etherington, Ben, ‘World Literature as a Speculative Literary Totality: Veselovksy, Auerbach, Said, and the Critical Humanist Tradition’, Modern Language Quarterly 82.2 (2021). 

Etherington, Ben, ‘Against Network Thinking’, Affirmations: of the modern, 6.1 (2019): 30-44.

Trayhurn, Samantha, ‘Samantha Trayhurn reviews Imminence by Mariana Dimópulos’, Mascara Literary Review, 11 June 2019.

Trayhurn, Samantha, ‘Our Wall of Water: Gazing at Fortress Australia From Columbia’s Open Borders’, Overland (online), 18 April 2019.

Trayhurn, Samantha, ‘Green Shadows: Venturing into Gerald Murnane’s Plains’, Westerly 63.1(2018): 39-47.

Trayhurn, Samantha, ‘Farewell to the Seal Woman: A Tribute to Beverley Farmer’, Overland (online), June 2018.

Trayhurn, Samantha, ‘Protecting the Brumbies: An Act of Colonisation’, Overland (online), 24 August 2018.

Trayhurn, Samantha, ‘Particular Bodies: Exploring a Corporeal Writing’, Hecate 43.1/2 (2017): 10-19.

Book Chapters

Etherington, Ben, ‘Scales, Systems, and Meridians’, in The Cambridge Companion to World Literature, ed. Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Etherington, Ben and Jarad Zimbler, ‘Introduction’, in The Cambridge Companion to World Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 1-19.

Jones, Gail, ‘Introduction’, in Cockatoos by Patrick White (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2019).

Trayhurn, Samantha, ‘”Images and Feelings in a Sort of Eternity”: Gerald Murnane’s Ideal Female Reader’, in Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020), 37-44.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Introduction’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed Anthony Uhlmann (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2022).

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Resisting Fixation in Gail Jones’ Sorry and Five Bells‘, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed Anthony Uhlmann (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2022).

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘The Precarious Author, Diary of a Bad Year, Slow Man‘, in Journal of Modern Literature (Special Issue: Precarious Times: J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Survival, ed Lynda Ng and Paul Sheehan), forthcoming 2021.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Introduction’, in Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One’, in Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One, ed Anthony Uhlmann (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020), 1-6.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Reporting Meaning in Border Districts’, in Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One’, in Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One, ed Anthony Uhlmann (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020), 135-144.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Philosophies’, in The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee, ed Jarad Zimbler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 206-220.

Papers and talks

Etherington, Ben, ‘The Peripheral Lyric in the Era of Multinational Capitalism’, Jameson, Allegory, Ideology, UNSW School of Arts and Media, UNSW, December 2019.

Etherington, Ben, ‘On Speculative Literary Totalities: Veselovksy, Auerbach, Said, and the Critical Humanist Tradition’, Center on Modern Culture, Materialism and Aesthetics, University of California at Santa Barbara & Cambridge Theory, Criticism, and Culture Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, November 2019.

Etherington, Ben, ‘Against Network Thinking: Critical Humanism and Speculative Literary Totalities’, World Literature and the Global South, third international congress of the World Literature Association, University of Sydney, August 2019.

Etherington, Ben, ‘Critical Humanism and Speculative Literary Totalities’, Heyman Center, Columbia University, January 2019.

Etherington, Ben, ‘Ralph de Boissière and the aspiration to a Communist World Literature’, Caribbean Meridians, Australian Association for Caribbean Literature biennial conference, Writing and Society Centre, WSU, February 2019.

Etherington, Ben, ‘Against Network Thinking’, Ideas of the South, Writing and Society Centre, Western Sydney University, March 2018.

Etherington, Ben, ‘Literary Meridians and World Literature’, Modern Languages Association Convention 2018, New York.

Jones, Gail, ‘Bewilderment and Sticky Fingerprints: Our Other History’, Roderick Public Lecture, James Cook University, 2017.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘The Provocations of J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Intuition and Fiction’, Late Night Live, 9 December 2020.

Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Textuality in Gail Jones’ Fiction’, Australian Association for the Teaching of English IFTE 2020 Conference, July 2020.

Media

Binelli, Mark, ‘Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town?’, New York Times, 27 March 2018.

Carman, Luke, ‘In the Room with Gerald Murnane’, Sydney Review of Books, 24 April 2018.

Stinson, Emmett, ‘Gerald Murnane: One of Australia’s Greatest Writers you May Never Have Heard Of’, The Guardian, 5 April 2018.

Sullivan, Jane, ‘Turning Pages: In Praise of Gerald Murnane’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 2018.

Trayhurn, Samantha (with Michele Seminara and Julie Koh), ‘In Memoriam: Ramon Loyola’, Verity La, November 2018.

Selected Creative Works by Project Members and Writers in Residence

Books

Coetzee. J. M., The Death of Jesus (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2019) (first published in Spanish, La muerte de Jesús, Literatura Random House).

Dimópulos, Mariana, Imminence (translated by Alice Whitmore) (Sydney: Giramondo, 2019).

Dimópulos, Mariana, All My Goodbyes (translated by Alice Whitmore) (Sydney: Giramondo, 2017).

Jones, Gail, Our Shadows (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2020).

Jones, Gail, The Death of Noah Glass (Chinese translation by Li Yao) (2020).

Jones, Gail, The Death of Noah Glass (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2018).

Uhlmann, Anthony, Saint Antony in His Desert (Perth: UWA Publishing, 2018).

Short Stories

Dimópulos, Mariana, ‘Puente/Brücke/Bridge’, in A Book of Friends: In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday, ed. Dorothy Driver (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2020), 48-59.

Jones, Gail, ‘The Four Dreams of Lu Xun’, in Antipodean China , ed. Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden (Sydney: Giramondo, 2020).

Jose, Nicholas, ‘Envy After’, (short story) in A Book of Friends: In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday, ed. Dorothy Driver (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2020), 99-109.

Kazumi Stahl, Anna, ‘A Japanese Tango Dream’, in A Book of Friends: In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday, ed. Dorothy Driver (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2020), 182-189.

Mairal, Pedro, ‘Road Trip’, in A Book of Friends: In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday, ed. Dorothy Driver (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2020), 112-117.

Schweblin, Samanta, ‘My Parents and My Children’, in A Book of Friends: In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday, ed. Dorothy Driver (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2020), 174-181.

Trayhurn, Samantha, ‘Island’, (short story), Etropic 16.2 (2017): 28-59.

Excerpts

Jones, Gail, Our Shadows (novel extract), in A Book of Friends: In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday, ed. Dorothy Driver (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2020), 91-98.

Forms of World Literature