Hecate articles from November 2008

Hecate archives from November 2008

Jane Austen and Kanai Mieko: comic sisterhood.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... A number of modern Japanese writers--both men and women--have expressed their strong respect and admiration for Jane Austen's literature. Kanai Mieko (b.1947), (1) in particular, has not only written some insightful comments about the works of...

A cross-cultural approach to Jane Austen's novels.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... How should we teach Jane Austen's novels? This is a question of great concern to many teachers. For example, the series 'Approaches to Teaching World Literature' includes Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma, and takes up this question. It...

From the violent to the comic through the power of the text: Nogami Yaeko reading Jane Austen in Japan.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... Nogami Yaeko (1885-1985) was one of modern Japan's most revered woman novelists. She was also a great admirer of the writing of Jane Austen. Nogami Yaeko first read Jane Austen as a young woman. However, in 1926, at the age of forty-one, her...

Even paradise has serpents.(Short story)
November 1, 2008... I wonder if Maguy knows I am here waiting at the airport, if she's pleased I've been so summarily dealt with by the police and Monsieur Hourrichon. But she's not a malicious person so perhaps not. She's probably with Albert anyway and not...

Nothing to fear.(Short story)
November 1, 2008... 'You really don't want to go home?' She shakes her head. She's embarrassed. She's thirty years old and scared of the dark. 'What are you so afraid of?' She looks out of the car at her house. It sits on a corner block and is lit...

Karanga for a nuclear free pacific.(Excerpt)
November 1, 2008... Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi engari te toa takitini My strength is not that of the individual but that of us all together In 1962, without consultation, France declared Moruroa Atoll and other Tahitian islands as nuclear test sites....

The unfinished business of biography: Mary Fullerton and Mabel Singleton revisited.(Essay)
November 1, 2008... Recently, a package from England arrived at my post office box, addressed to me in an unfamiliar hand. I opened it with curiosity to find a bundle of poems on loose sheets of paper, some in typescript, some handwritten neatly in ink, others...

The Last Weeks of the War, Italy 1945.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... The Last Weeks of the War, Italy 1945 1. Icici The Germans tell her to get into the jeep. Holding on to its cold, dusty sides, Sofia looks back at the steel-grey Adriatic and her brother, as it lurches...

Islands.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... Islands i dream of islands, glass bottom boats, waters clear and safe as houses before they're bombed fish scales, slippery as yesterday's news i dream in islands, swimming in sea chambers/amongst coral fish...

Simple Things.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... Simple Things Years later, you get up from your desk and move room to room, for some reason conscious of the dry weight of your skirt of its shifting against the skin of your calves of the cumbersome shape and...

Women, peace building and political inclusion: a case study from Solomon Islands.(Case study)
November 1, 2008... Introduction Despite the crucial activities women fulfilled during the conflict in Solomon Islands they were overlooked and excluded in the peace negotiations and are yet to be sufficiently represented in national level politics. This...

The SMS Queen of Bali.(Short story)
November 1, 2008... At the end of May, my sister Anja emails from Bali to tell me some 'fantastic news'--she's getting married in a week's time to Nyoman, a 'beautiful Balinese man'. It's her fourth marriage. He's thirty. She's fifty. Ten years older than me and,...

Michele Le Doeuff, feminist epistemology, and the unthought.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... Throughout her work, Michele Le Doeuff demonstrates ways in which dusters of images and ideas can become unquestioned orthodoxies and permeate our epistemic imaginary. In The Philosophical Imaginary (1989) and Hipparchia's Choice (1991) she...

Reclaiming identity in Rhyll McMaster's Feather Man.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... In 2007, the poet Rhyll McMaster published her first novel, Feather Man, with a small publishing company, Brandl and Schlesinger, after six years of 'almost universal rejection from every Australian publisher and literary agent'. (1) In that...

Touch-me-not.(Excerpt)
November 1, 2008... Probably everyone except Harry Vance wanted in some way to escape from Rosewood, but like the characters in Stevenson's fable 'The House of Eld', one of Harry's favourite texts, they were somehow wedded to their fetters. Anna increasingly...

Tomorrow in the pleasure gardens.(Short story)
November 1, 2008... We walked along the street. Night-time, crowds, lights, men. I was dressed in my favourite green kurta, jade hoop ear-rings, perfumed and, as we cut through the cars and people, I realised suddenly that I was a woman out. We walked. Mumtaz...

Tomorrow in the Pleasure Gardens.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... Tomorrow in the Pleasure Gardens And tomorrow we would go to the pleasure gardens, you said, stroll arm in arm, a woman and a man. There would be families there, you said, women in hijab, watermelon sellers, ...

Write like you play.(Essay)
November 1, 2008... I left my prestigious undergraduate education with an immediately scheduled acceptance to a postgraduate degree in writing. To the surprise of friends and family, I turned it down. 'Someday I'll go back to school,' I said. 'But not right now.'...

And Yet Despite What You Knew.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... And Yet Despite What You Knew you still went ahead, dragging your house like a snail, holding as much as your arms could hear, and the place that you built suffered from dampness and the walls sprouted moss, ...

Boomerang.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... Boomerang The aim is to simulate the fire of a gun shot to excite that scale of fear... crows call caw caw SLAP SLAP hands clap! caw CAW caw caw the cacophony flares then burns ...

Womb.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... Womb The kitchen door ajar the window a spoon, the table a book on her own in the room of the night, she piles up the dishes one by one. She doesn't always do as he would want nowadays. The children ...

Doll.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... Doll 1. see this doll do you like this doll would you like to play with this doll did you play with him when he played with you were you the doll did he touch you here or in this place...

Anomie.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... Anomie (1) He'd slink the drive way like a cat his soft shoes making no sound rap with his middle knuckle on her bedroom window at two maybe three in the morning until she let him in with a Shush don't wake...

Nagasaki.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... Nagasaki Eros unruly godlet loved to burn butterfly wings a slow charring Remembered now reading of the fluttering hands almond eyes and fragile silks the city's pale courteous ladies...

In Response to Murakami Haruki.(Poem)
November 1, 2008... In Response to Murakami Haruki "It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical" Murakami Haruki, "A Folklore for My Generation" Yukino Kitagawa was standing at the kitchen countertop...