Recently added articles from Hecate:
Jane Austen and Kanai Mieko: comic sisterhood.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 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 the English novelist, but also novels and ...
A cross-cultural approach to Jane Austen's novels.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 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 shows many interesting approaches, focusing on ...
From the violent to the comic through the power of the text: Nogami Yaeko reading Jane Austen in Japan.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 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 understanding of the English writer's work ...
Even paradise has serpents.(Short story)
Nov 01, 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 thinking about me at all. Albert is all she cares ...
Karanga for a nuclear free pacific.(Excerpt)
Nov 01, 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. Karanga for a Nuclear Free Pacific depicts ...
The unfinished business of biography: Mary Fullerton and Mabel Singleton revisited.(Essay)
Nov 01, 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 scrawled in pencil. This hand was familiar. The ...
The Last Weeks of the War, Italy 1945.(Poem)
Nov 01, 2008; ... <Pre> The Last Weeks of the War, Italy 1945 1. Icici The Germans tell her to getinto the jeep.Holding on to its cold, dusty sides,Sofia looks back at the steel-greyAdriatic and her brother,as it lurches onto the road.Against his chest, he holds ...
Islands.(Poem)
Nov 01, 2008; ... <Pre> Islands i dream of islands, glass bottom boats, waters clearand safe as houses before they're bombed fish scales, slippery as yesterday's news i dream in islands, swimming in sea chambers/amongst coralfish teeth lodge themselves on my dinner plate ...
Women, peace building and political inclusion: a case study from Solomon Islands.(Case study)
Nov 01, 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 article examines why, despite the active ...
The SMS Queen of Bali.(Short story)
Nov 01, 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, in many ways, more like a second mother than a ...
Michele Le Doeuff, feminist epistemology, and the unthought.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 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 characterises the historical development of ...
Reclaiming identity in Rhyll McMaster's Feather Man.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 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 year Feather Man was shortlisted for the Vance ...
Touch-me-not.(Excerpt)
Nov 01, 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 sought refuge in stories, addicted to the printed ...
Tomorrow in the pleasure gardens.(Short story)
Nov 01, 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 passed us by, threw me a dirty look. Because I had ...
Tomorrow in the Pleasure Gardens.(Poem)
Nov 01, 2008; ... <Pre> Tomorrow in the Pleasure Gardens And tomorrow we would goto the pleasure gardens, you said,stroll arm in arm, a woman and a man.There would be families ...
Write like you play.(Essay)
Nov 01, 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.' There was, even then, a distinctly ...
And Yet Despite What You Knew.(Poem)
Nov 01, 2008; ... <Pre> 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 wallssprouted moss,and none of the machines worked the way they ...
Boomerang.(Poem)
Nov 01, 2008; ... <Pre> Boomerang The aim is tosimulate the fireof a gun shotto excite thatscale of fear ... crows call caw cawSLAP SLAP hands clap!caw CAWcawcawthe cacophony flaresthen burnsas black leaves flapto distant boughs ...
Womb.(Poem)
Nov 01, 2008; ... <Pre> Womb The kitchen door ajarthe window a spoon, the table a bookon her own in the roomof the night, she piles up the dishesone by one. She doesn't ...
Doll.(Poem)
Nov 01, 2008; ... <Pre> Doll 1. see this doll do you like thisdoll would youlike to playwith this doll did you play withhim whenhe played with you wereyou thedoll did he touch you here orin thisplace or downhere if he was the dolldid ...