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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Dženana Vucic

Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, poet and critic. She received a Marten Bequest, a Peter Blazey Fellowship and a Kat Muscat Fellowship to work on a book about the Bosnian war, identity, memory and un/belonging. Her writing has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Cordite, Overland, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Australian Poetry Journal, Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Rabbit and others. She tweets at @dzenanabanana.

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Published in Overland Issue 253 Summer 2023/4 · Essay

In the name of the moon, I’ll destroy capitalism!

Dženana Vucic

On hangover days my boyfriend and I watch Sailor Moon. It’s ultimate hangover viewing. It’s also, we decided one morning, groggy from the night before and running on little more than BBQ chips and gummy bears, an anti-capitalist text.

Published in Overland Issue 245 Summer 2021 · Poetry

girl

Dženana Vucic

I am watching her lick her blood off the floor and I am thinking: it is a marvel that the nose can lose so much and remain intact I am thinking: what is a fist a shoe a foot a book what is a belt a wooden spoon a frying pan if not a kind of missile.

Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021 · Memoir

Feature | A teleology of folding, and of dying

Dženana Vucic

For years, nobody called me by my name. In Brisbane, I was jen; in Melbourne people called me ana. It was a neat split, my name folded into a recognisable shape, the unnecessary syllables and foreign letters turned in against themselves and shushed. It is a recent thing to have claimed the full breadth of myself.

Published in Overland Issue Poetry in Lockdown · Poetry

500 words towards feeling, or: all my poems become war poems

Dženana Vucic

i write notes in my phone and hope to be profound. i have examples. you see, i am the kind of girl that makes love to the subjunctive. i am not proud of this per se but i like to wear my wounds. i have better wounds than this but i want to be mundane.

7 October 20205 November 2020 · Reviews

Metonyms for home

Dženana Vucic

It is tempting to read New Metonyms as first and foremost an attempt to cast Bosnia in a new light, to make over its image. And yes, New Metonyms is an art book immaculately designed to offer the world a new, more optimistic conception of Bosnia. But through this, it is also the story of diaspora, of homecoming, of the complicated relationships we hold with our past, and of the refugee’s need to prove that there is more to us than hurting. It is a work of art, of sevdah and of hope.

3 June 20202 July 2020 · Reviews

Eight readings of In the Dream House

Dženana Vucic

Machado is building, fragment by fragment, another house. She is creating a context for abused queer people to locate themselves and shifting authority away from the palatial archive of heterosexual, male-on-female physical abuse to a place with room for the queer and the nuanced.