Kunapipi Volume 2 Number 1 1980

Kunapipi Volume 2 | Issue 1 1980 Kunapipi Volume 2 Number 1 1980 Follow this and additional works at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Kunapipi Volume 2 Number 1 1980, Kunapipi, 2(1), 1980. Available at:http://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol2/iss1/1 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: Article 1 Kunapipi Volume 2 Number 1 1980 Abstract Full text of issue. This full issue is available in Kunapipi: http://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol2/iss1/1 DANGAROO PRESS BIRD, HAWK, BOGIE: Essays on Janet Frame Edited by Jeanne Delbaere This is the first collection of essays to appear on Janet Frame. Each of her novels is discussed separately by one of the contribu tors. The book also contains an essay by the West Indian writer Wilson Harris, a substantial introduction by the editor and an an~ notated checklist of critical writings on Janet Frame. 8 Danish kroner 50. ENIGMA OF VALUES: an introduction Edited by Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford ENIGMA OF VALUES: an introduction contains a chapter describing the critical approach to literature of the West Indian writer and critic Wilson Harris. When he was guest lecturer in Commonwealth literature at Aarhus University, Denmark in 1973 Wilson Harris developed his ideas on the novel as an open form susceptible of renewal and traced attempts to break through the accepted conventions of fiction in works written in the last century or so. The other essays in this book offer interpretations of well-known novels, which take into account WilsOn Harris's critical ideas. 'Enigma of Values is a welcome addition to those works of criticism that help >>to widen and complicate the map of our sensibility~<'. Michael Gilkes in Research in African Literature. Danish kroner 40. THE NAKED DESIGN Hena Maes-Jelinek This study by one of the major critics of Wilson Harris's work gives the first detailed analysis of the way in which lanquage and imagery function in Palace of the Peacock to create a new art of fiction. Danish kroner 20. Obtainable From DANGAROO PRESS, Department oF English, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, DENMARK. 1d1deun}l • • 0861 l "M3:HWflN 6 3:Wfl10A ldldVNn>l Kunapzpi refers to the Australian aboriginal myth of the Rainbow Serpent which is the symbol both of creativity and regeneration. The journal's emblem is to be found on an aboriginal shield from the Roper River area of the Northern Territory in Australia. Kunapipi is published with the assistance of Det humanistiskc Forskningsrad (the Danish Humanities Research Council). Kunapipi VOLUME II NUMBER 1 Editor ANNA RUTHERFORD Reviews Editor KIRSTEN HOLST PETERSEN Production Editor SIGNE FRITS Editorial Committee MONA ANDERSEN, J0RN CARLSEN, SIGNE FRITS, DONALD W. HANNAH, BENTE KRAGH, KIRSTEN HOLST PETERSEN, ANNA RUTHERFORD, BODIL S0RENSEN Editorial Advisors PETER ALCOCK, EDWARD BAUGH, DIANA BRYDON, MICHAEL FOSTER, YASMINE GOONERATNE, STEPHEN GRAY, GARETH GRIFFITHS, PRABHU S. GUPTARA, MARK MACLEOD, HENA MAES-JELINEK, ALASTAIR NIVEN, KIRPAL SINGH Kunapipi is a continuation of Commonwealth Newsletter and is published twice a year, Summer and Winter, by Dangaroo Press, Department of English, University of Aarhus. It is a journal of creative and critical writing concerned with the new literatures written in English. The major concentration is on the present and former Commonwealth countries but this is in no way exclusive. Articles and reviews on related historical and sociological topics will also be included. The journal is the bulletin for the European branch of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. As such it offers information about courses, conferences, visiting scholars and writers, scholarships, and literary competitions. The editor invites creative and scholarly contributions. Manuscripts should be double-spaced with footnotes gathered at the end, shouid conform to the MHRA (Modern Humanities R<;search Association) Style Sheet and should be accompanied by a return envelope. All correspondence- manuscripts, books for review, inquiriesshould be sent to: Anna Rutherford Editor- KUNAPIPI Department of English University of Aarhus 8000 Aarhus C Denmark Printed and published by Dangaroo Press Copyright© 1980 by KUNAPIPI ISSN 0106-5734 CONTENTS: FICTION Norman Talbot, 'The Third Labour' Frank Moorhouse, 'Tortures, Jealousy Tests and Getting Tough' 'Mechanical Aptitude' Yvonne du Fresne, 'Armistice Day' E. A. Markham, 'A Continental Romance' POEMS Stephen Gray, 'Hottentot Venus' Jayanta Mahapatra, 'The Thirteenth Year of my Daughter' 'Beyond the Himalayan Ranges' Zulfikar Chose, 'Three Poems: Notes Towards a Nature Poem' 'E.G.' 'The Dragonfly in the Sun' Cyril Dabydeen, 'The King has no Clothes' 'All the Elements' 'How to Save a Life' 'Partnership' ARTICLES Jacques Alvarez-Pereyre, 'Does it Matter About Don Mattera?' Jeanne N. Dingome, 'Soyinka's The Road as Ritual Drama' Les A. Murray, 'The Boeotian Strain' Gareth Griffiths, 'Experiments with Form in Recent Australian Drama' Denis Hul.ston, 'A Note on Albert Wendt's Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree' Michel Fabre, 'The Reception of Palace of the Peacock in Paris' Phyllis Allfrey, 'Hurricane David: The Skeleton of a Survival Tale' A. L. McLeod, 'Claude McKay's Adaptation to Audience' 42 65 67 91 ll3 27 41 42 88 8-9 91 109 110 ll1 112 1 30 45 70 96 106 118 123 INTERVIEWS Nadine Gordimer Wilson Harris 20 100 THE YEAR THAT WAS 135 CORRESPONDENCE 160 BOOK REVIEWS 162 ACLALS 189 CONFERENCES 192 Notes on contributors 196 Index 197 JACQUES ALVAREZ-PEREYRE Does it Matter About Don Mattera? In a country like South Africa where separation of the races is the official policy, it is not infrequent to witness individual efforts to breach the walls and establish a multi-racial solidarity. The presence in jail and among the banned of members of all the communities testifies to it, as do the homages paid from all quarters to the militants and/ or writers who have committed themselves to real, meaningful changes and have died, been imprisoned· or silenced in the process. Don Mattera is one of them. The Mattera family cast roots iri South Africa in 1904 when Francesco Mattera, then 26 years old and a sailor from Naples, jumped ship while in Cape Town and married a Griqua woman. He went to work in the Kimberley mines, made some money there and eventually founded one of the first bus companies for Africans in Johannesburg. He settled in near-by Sophiatown where the family, through inter-racial union or marriage, became as cosmopolitan as the city. Don Mattera, Francesco's grandson, was born in 1935. Left at first in the care of his paternal grandparents, he was later sent to a Catholic school in Durban which accommodated orphans and children from broken homes. There, he was brought up the hard way, his rebellious (...truncated)