Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 193 Summer 2008 · Main Posts Issue 193 Jeff Sparrow Contents Editorial Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Overland Lecture Antony Loewenstein – Features Kevin Foster – ‘Eyewitness’ in a Slouch Hat Alexis Wright – A Weapon of Poetry Michael Winkler – Murderous Exhibitions Andrew Ramadge – The Last Fanzine Sandy Jeffs – Death of the Father Frank Stilwell – Sustaining What? Tanya Serisier and Mark Pendleton – The Disappearance of Desire Robert Darby – The Outlook and Morals of an Ancient Greek Suzanne Jamieson and Tom Bramble – The Tide Turning? Susan Lever – Criticism and Fiction in Australia Fiction Louise Swinn – The Modern Australian Short Stories Tutor Eva Sallis – Life Sentence Richard Lawson – A Chink Too Wide Online Fiction Supplement Nicola Haywood – Sometimes the Best You Can Do is Just Jump Back In [PDF version] Jane Price – The Arrangement [PDF version] Anna Bennetts – Beneath Our Skins [PDF version] Richard Millar – The Classroom [PDF version] Poetry David Prater – Sunbathing Sarah-Jane Norman – A vanishing city – This is the Hikari Super Express Aden Rolfe – We Watched the Waves – Cherry Blossom Joel Scott – Half Life Ivy Ireland – Textiles Exhibition – High Tea with The Muse Ted Nielsen – i took the hand of a preacherman – franchisee, revisited Anwyn Crawford – Interior Life Kevin Gillam – in a hurried life Reviews Tom O’Lincoln – Battles Over the War Lyndall Ryan – Assimilating Australia Andrew Markus – The Clubs of White Men Elizabeth Campbell – Prolific Rhetoric John Kinsella responds to Elizabeth Campbell – The ‘Lore’ of Diminishing Returns Brian McFarlane – Groupings and Gropings in Australian Cinema Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley Award-winning writer, broadcaster and former editor of Overland. More by Jeff Sparrow Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 25 May 202326 May 2023 · Main Posts The ‘Chinese question’ and colonial capitalism in New Gold Mountain Christy Tan SBS’s New Gold Mountain sets out to recover the history of the Gold Rush from the marginalised perspective of Chinese settlers but instead reinforces the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. Although celebrated for its multilingual script and diverse representation, the mini-TV series ignores how the settlement of Chinese migrants and their recruitment into colonial capitalism consolidates the ongoing displacement of First Nations peoples. First published in Overland Issue 228 15 February 202322 February 2023 · Main Posts Self-translation and bilingual writing as a transnational writer in the age of machine translation Ouyang Yu To cut a long story short, it all boils down to the need to go as far away from oneself as possible before one realizes another need to come back to reclaim what has been lost in the process while tying the knot of the opposite ends and merging them into a new transformation.
