Colloquy, issue 15 (2008)

ARTICLES “To use a metaphor at a time like this would be obscene”: a study of cancer, poetry and metaphor By Cathy Altmann Burning Down the [Big] House: Sati in Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary By Frances Botkin Wounded Space: Law, Justice and Violence to the Land By Jennifer Coralie Seeing Stars: Reading Melancholy and Power at Madame Tussauds through the Lens of Hiroshi Sugimoto By Elizabeth Howie Concrete Containment in Late Capitalism, Mysticism, the Marquis de Sade, and Phenomenological Anthropology By Apple Igrek “Edging Back Into Awareness”; How Late it Was, How Late, Form, and the Utopian Demand By Dougal McNeill Crisis of Memory Traumatic Memory and Holocaust Testimony: Passing Judgement in Representations of Chaim Rumkowski By Adam Brown Recreating Postmemory? Children of Holocaust Survivors and the Journey to Auschwitz By Esther Jilovsky Blurring the Boundaries: History, Memory and Imagination in the Works of W G Sebald By Diane Molloy REVIEW ARTICLE Santiago Zabala (ed.) Weakening Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo. Monteal & Kingston; London; Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007 By Ashley Woodward TRANSLATION “To a man with a big nose”: a new translation By Jorge Salavert Pinedo ESSAYS The Great Inland Sea: reflections on the buddhadharma in the post-secular age By Martin Kovan Kazantzakis’ Poor Man of God: Philosophy without Philosophy By Nick Trakakis BOOK REVIEWS Jennifer Loureide Biddle. Breasts, bodies, canvas: Central Desert art as experience. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2007 By Elizabeth Burns Coleman Robert Crawford. But Wait, There’s More…: A History of Australian Advertising, 1900-2000. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008 By Jay Daniel Thompson William Echard. Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005 By Andrew Padgett Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of His Early Occasional Writings, 1910-1927, edited by Theodore Kisiel and Thomas Sheehan. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007 By James Garrett Mark Poster. Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006 By Adam Lodders Henry Reynolds. The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006 By Louise Gray Alison Ross. The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2007 By Carlo Salzani Tim Thorne. A Letter to Egon Kisch. Launceston: Cornford Press, 2007 By David Blencowe CREATIVE WRITING Three Poems By Vivienne Glance In a straw house by a blue stream: Chinese Poems By Christopher Kelen Light Pink Summer By Susan McMichael A Brew that is True By Nicola Scholes