Volume 1, Issue 1, November 2008

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Letter from the Editor:

Welcome to Transnational Literature, a freely accessible, fully refereed international e-journal published twice a year by the Humanities Research Centre, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. In the first issue, we offer an eclectic collection of material. We have articles on William Burroughs and Salman Rushdie, and an international symposium on a fundamental question of concern to us all, ‘Does Literature Exist?’. This symposium grew from an essay by Robert Lumsden, and includes contributions from six literary scholars from Australia, America and Asia. I hope that readers might be inspired to continue the conversation in future issues.

Also included are poems from an Australian living in the Middle East as well as two established Adelaide poets, and an autobiographical essay from an American of German origin. To round out the picture, we include seven book reviews on a variety of publications, including fiction, poetry and literary criticism from Australia, Africa and Thailand.

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    List of contributors to 'Transnational Literature', Volume 1 no. 1, November 2008.
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    A Cautionary Note
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    Does Literature Exist? A Transnational Symposium
    ( 2008-11-18T03:38:21Z) Lumsden, Robert ; Singh, Kirpal ; Deming, Richard ; Beales, Brodie ; Nazareth, Peter ; Dooley, Gillian Mary
    Six literary scholars discuss the meaning of literature, and the nature of literary criticism.
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    ‘The Way OUT is the Way IN’: Junk and the Subversion of the Nation/Symptom in William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch
    ( 2008-11-17T22:44:54Z) Beales, Brodie
    In his introduction to a collection of work entitled Man at Leisure by the author of Young Adam and Cain’s Book Alexander Trocchi, William Burroughs described its author as a ‘cosmonaut of inner space’. In so doing Burroughs turned Trocchi’s own description of the role of a writer on the author himself. Trocchi shared a number of lifestyle similarities with Burroughs. Both writers identified with the Beat movement, were published by Olympia Press, prosecuted for obscenity and addicted to heroin and (as their as yet unpublished extensive private correspondence indicates) were well acquainted with one another. Yet it is in the essential concern of their writing that a more meaningful similarity emerges: a naked engagement with authenticity and a desire to separate that which Nietzsche termed ‘the way of seeing from the origin of seeing’. Reading the work that is later to characterise Burroughs’ own style seen in Naked Lunch, the same description of the writer as a cosmonaut of inner space may just as aptly be applied to Burroughs himself.
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    Review of 'Dougie's Ton' by Syd Harrex.
    ( 2008-11-17T01:39:36Z) Barnett, Tully Sarah
    Review of 'Dougie's Ton and 99 Other Sonnets' by Syd Harrex.
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