Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.
Dr Daniella Trimboli works between Kaurna Country, Tarntanya/Adelaide, and Wurundjeri Country, Naarm/Melbourne as a Cultural Studies scholar and community arts practitioner. She is a research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, specialising in multiculturalism and diaspora studies, critical race theory, and migrant creative practice. Her first book, Mediating Multiculturalism: Digital Storytelling and the Everyday Ethnic, was published in 2020 by Anthem Press.
