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Transnational Literature (formerly Quodlibet: the Australian Journal of Trans-national Writing) is a freely accessible, fully refereed international e-journal published twice a year by the School of Humanities, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
The journal publishes academic work, book reviews and creative writing in the areas of:
- Postcolonial literatures
- New Literatures in English
- International Writing
- Literature crossing cultural or national boundaries
- New readings of canonical and historical literature.
Collections in this community
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Syd Harrex Special Issue December 2016
Special issue to celebrate the life and work of Syd Harrex, published out of series
Recent Submissions
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Two Poems by Friedrich Rückert translated by Alex McKeown.
Translations from the German of two poems by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866). Both poems look back to the Persian poet Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (1315-1390), commonly known as Hafiz. The first poem, 'Home', ... -
Complete book reviews (fiction, poetry and life-writing) Transnational Literature May 2018
Complete fiction, poetry and life-writing book reviews for Transnational Literature, May 2018, in one file for ease of downloading or printing -
Complete Fiction & Life Writing, May 2018
All prose creative writing from Transnational Literature, May 2018, in one file for ease of printing and downloading -
Complete ‘Voices from the Margins’ Special Feature
Complete ‘Voices from the Margins’ Special Feature in one file (for downloading or printing) -
Complete poetry and translation, Transnational Literature May 2018
Complete poetry for Transnational Literature, May 2018, in one file for ease of downloading or printing. Also includes Translation from Ruckert. -
Complete book reviews (history, theory and criticism) Transnational Literature May 2018
Complete history, theory and criticism book reviews for Transnational Literature, May 2018, in one file for ease of downloading or printing -
Review of East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchange from Yeats to Morrison by Yoshinobu Hakutani.
Review of East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchange from Yeats to Morrison by Yoshinobu Hakutani. -
Complete articles, Transnational Literature May 2018
Complete articles for Transnational Literature, May 2018, in one file for ease of downloading or printing -
Review of The Hatred of Literature by William Marx, translated by Nicholas Elliott.
Review of The Hatred of Literature by William Marx, translated from the French by Nicholas Elliott. -
Identity and Nation in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) looks back to Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982) and anticipates his third, The Remains of the Day (1989) seeing that the painter Ono worries about a possible ... -
‘Trans-Cultural Exchange’: Reframing Historical Metanarratives in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret
The following article considers how historical metanarratives are critiqued in The Silent Minaret (2005), a novel by South African author Ishtiyaq Shukri. With reference to Judith Butler’s (2009) notion of the frame and ... -
The Power of Nothing(s): Parahumanity and Erasure in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
Indra Sinha’s 2007 novel Animal’s People, a fictionalized account of the legacy of the Bhopal industrial disaster, centers on a young man who has been physically altered by a large-scale chemical spill that killed thousands ... -
Cherry Blossom Cycling
As a cyclist from South Australia, known as the driest state in the driest continent, I had never entertained the notion of cycling in the rain. In Japan, where rain was abundant, I followed the dangerous practice of ... -
To consider Chelsea Manning at Guangzhou airport
Poem: To consider Chelsea Manning at Guangzhou airport -
Revisiting history and reconstructing new forms of belonging and identity in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron
As a study of Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron (2000), this article will explain that this novel revisits the South Asian history while deconstructing the periodisation of the South Asian historiography and its narration ... -
Authorship and Generative Embodiment in Bahiṇāī’s Songs
Bahiṇāī Caudharī (1880-1951) was an ardent devotee of Viṭṭhal, the god worshipped by Vārkarīs. Her son Sopāndev was puzzled when he learnt that she repudiated village kīrtans, performances primarily in praise of Viṭṭhal, ...
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