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255 Winter 2024

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This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.

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Jodi Mcalister

Jodi McAlister is a PhD candidate in Modern History at Macquarie University. She studies the literary history of romance, love, sex, and virginity. She recaps Outlander for the Momentum Moonlight blog, where she also writes a weekly column on romance.

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23 October 20145 November 2014 · Reviews

The radical, romantic female gaze of Outlander

Jodi Mcalister

‘Take off your shirt. I want to look at you.’ These words, spoken in ‘The Wedding’, the seventh episode of Outlander, are radical, because they are spoken by a woman to a man. Unlike Game of Thrones, the show to which it is most frequently compared, Outlander is governed exclusively by an active, desiring female gaze.