Hecate articles from May 2008

Hecate archives from May 2008

Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2008... This is our first issue since 11 years of conservative government came to an end, along with a Prime Minister who thoroughly disliked the Universities, the ABC and critical media, and other parts of the public sphere whose operations had been...

'You're a woman and our orchestra just won't have you': the politics of otherness in the conducting profession.(Report)
May 1, 2008... Introduction In the musical profession of conducting, men have had the power to construct and cultivate customs and traditions and, as a result, the role of the conductor has been imbued with so-called 'masculine traits.' While the role...

Methodological challenges amidst musical food for the soul: reflections on singing lullabies as a mother.(Report)
May 1, 2008... Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new...

Green.(Poem)
May 1, 2008... A green Depression-glass butter holder sat on my Nana's table. She served jellies in this Deco-fluted glass. Cheap in its day from Woollies but made to do and pretty too. Green as 'ten green bottles hanging on the wall' fated 'to fall' in pile...

Yellow.(Poem)
May 1, 2008... 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road,' and Dorothy did into the land of Oz. Where we watched 'Happy Little Vegemites' trumpeting across 1950s t.v. screens and still marching into the 21st Century. Hello-Yellow flowers and daisy-love tripped on 1960s...

Flat Lemonade.(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Flat Lemonade (for my Grandma, Mabel Collinge 1916-1999) Thank you for the lemonade you gave to us so freely as children I drew the glass and its contents before drinking the still-life and offering the drawing to...

'A Wider Canvas'.(Second Person Perspective: Heterosexual Artistic Partnerships)(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... 'A Wider Canvas' Georgia O'Keefe 1887-1986 Alfred Stieglitz 1864-1946 Did Stieglitz really say, 'At last a woman on paper?' that day when he first saw your charcoals then exhibited them at his 291 Gallery in New...

Growing.(Second Person Perspective: Heterosexual Artistic Partnerships)(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Growing A girl, a woman, is dressing in her room. Standing in her underpants, about to swing her breasts into her bra, she looks down at their heaviness at their increasing heaviness and feels like all of...

Ghazal: Generations.(Second Person Perspective: Heterosexual Artistic Partnerships)(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Ghazal: Generations Inside a body another body invents itself, stretches and turns in thick fluid to the beating of two bloods. On the floor, he kneels by her pillow. Lit by a lamp: her brown nipples, her...

Cancer 1.(Second Person Perspective: Heterosexual Artistic Partnerships)(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Cancer 1 my skin strips off shredded burnt as steal as radiation they wheel me off on a bed of thorns it's time for the cutting the routing out the sneak preview that spreads through the blood an...

Cancer 2.(Second Person Perspective: Heterosexual Artistic Partnerships)(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Cancer 2 My body dies down like a sunset thick with pain killers, time killers and the moon hides behind her pink shawl like a heart. There's a tumour inside me as big as a cloud. I can't sleep it talks so much as...

A Room at the Signora's.(Second Person Perspective: Heterosexual Artistic Partnerships)(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... A Room at the Signora's Lower Hardgrave Road, Brisbane At the end of the street where basil meets jasmine the casa of the Signora stood, centred on an icon of the Sacred Heart from her native Firenze. The...

After midnight, a morning.(Short story)
May 1, 2008... For Jacqui Zephyr Cussen, whose idea it was to explore women's 'after midnight morns' After midnight, a morning begins. It's there in the sepia light of my study lamp, carving a soft warm space out of the darkness, the cold prowling on...

Hard dreams and indigenous worlds in Australia's North.
May 1, 2008... Moments are as common as the sunrise, but historic moments are rare. Three such talismanic events have taken place in Australia over the past nine months. All three focus upon central and enduring stories of Indigenous Australia. All three...

The Owl Man.(Short story)
May 1, 2008... 'Soon I will be gone from the troubles of the world,' her brother sings as he drives them through the darkness. His voice is low. The road snakes. It disappears under the car and surfaces somewhere behind. They grew up in this country. She...

Slut.(Short story)
May 1, 2008... I can't do up the top button of my jeans but I wear them anyway, just let my shirt hang loose over the front and hope no one can tell. I'm definitely packing it on. The boys don't seem to mind. 'Aren't you ready yet, Fatso?' Mum yells....

Freedom and responsibility: narrating Maori women's lives in Patricia Grace's Cousins.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... This paper will carry out a reading of Patricia Grace's novel Cousins in terms of mana wahine, a movement supported by a framework of Matauranga Maori (Maori knowledge) that works towards further recognition of Maori women's rights and...

The Maori at war and strategic survival: Tu by Patricia Grace.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Maori Writing about War and Tu as a War Novel In Patricia Grace's novel Tu (2004), about the Maori fighting in World War Two, the Tainui Maori leader Te Puea Herangi makes a brief appearance to articulate a view which was unfashionable for...

Self as a 'migratory bird': Janet Frame's Towards Another Summer.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Janet Frame's autobiographical novella Towards Another Summer, was published posthumously in 2007. (1) It was produced in 1963, when Frame was living in London just after The Edge of the Alphabet was published, and she was writing The Adaptable...

Breathe.(Short story)
May 1, 2008... Breathe. She must remember to breathe, June tells herself. She grows more tired, tighter, more impatient as she waits there for her daughter on the dirt strip outside the airport. Luang Prabang is a long, long way from anywhere--she had endured...

Cobbling the self: interventions in the classed subject.(Report)
May 1, 2008... Social class has been the subject of extensive investigation within the academic humanities for more than a century, although historical emergence, nomenclature, and theoretical ownership are as much contested as the notion of class itself. If...

Dress circle.(Short story)
May 1, 2008... The musty smell of old carpet filled the corridor, hot with the press of the crowd. In the half darkness, Laura fingered the pair of tickets in her bag. She felt defiant to be here alone. They had been a gift for Markus, for the two of them to...

Girls.(Short story)
May 1, 2008... Tracy Wheelan's parents ran the caravan park on the edge of one of those small towns that oscillate--that swing in small breaths--between boredom and hysteria, that stay ragged and uncertain like the broken lines that indicate the roads you...

Haring's Sebastian.(Two Contemporary St Sebastians)(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Haring's Sebastian (Keith Haring, 1984) Five airplanes have flown into his torso but he's fighting this fate, he is frantic with terror. Contorting to face the tree, he strains away from the cord that ties him, ...

Osthorst's Sebastian.(Two Contemporary St Sebastians)(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Osthorst's Sebastian (Niels Osthorst, 2004) It is the blood that is essential, trailing all the way to his feet from each of the many arrows, as it would do. Sharing its colour are the roses that crowd beneath him,...

Sailboats.(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Sailboats When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails Gift, Czeslaw Milosz (i) 50c Purchase A pale saucer with a thin royal blue rim and a small green sash of grass and clump of trees sloping down to a...

Lily.(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Lily when you show me your land this winter day I am unready for the wooing defences are unnecessary, I feel (I've heard of your prowess with women but I believe I'm past all that) and so you...

Pausing.(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Pausing When the world was a sequence of aerial views, a book of landmarks and highlights, when her backpack was the shape of a house, a disposable camera, her constant companion, when Korinthos, Kalamata,...

Slipping Into Slow.(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Slipping Into Slow Sometimes it happens in a glance returned to tumbled roof tiles earlier passed over, rain streaks in an ochre-washed wall, or the snug look of a paint box cushioned among socks in the unpacking...

Friday night vigil.(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Friday night vigil Before the rally in Town Hall square I watch after-work drinkers ties skewed, cardigans adrift catch buses home girls in cocktail dresses step from taxis like flamingoes punks...

Burning Eyes, Aching Breasts.(Poem)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Burning Eyes, Aching Breasts Pace these rooms in search of a clean teapot a place to hide your bewilderment. How did you get left behind? Why are the cupboards so empty? Who are these strangers pacing...

Lost children and imaginary mothers in Sonya Hartnett's Of a Boy.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva writes about lost children. (1) These are what she calls 'dejects', (2) who, in the psychodrama of subject formation, fail to fully absent the body of the mother, to accept the Law of the Father and the...

Oh! Incredible India: Matilda's exotic Indian safari in a Hindustan Contessa.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... Jane Watson's Hindustan Contessa (1) published in 2002, may be regarded as a fictionalized cultural travelogue that internalizes 'the license of a traveller', for the narrative is deeply subjective and problematic, resonant as it is with the...