The Case of THE CASE: A Future Summary of Jonglian Poetry, Using Fictional Devices

Authors

  • Michael Farrell Melbourne University

Keywords:

Australian poetry, Jong Ah Sing, ficto-criticism, gold-mining

Abstract

The article is a ficto-critical piece that imagines an Australian poetry that has been influenced by the innovative Diary of Chinese gold-miner Jong Ah Sing. The Diary was written 1866-72 and is held by the State Library of Victoria. The stylistic devices, such as capital letters and unorthodox syntax, as well as references to invented punctuation, all derive from this manuscript which is one of the texts I am examining for my PhD thesis.

Author Biography

Michael Farrell, Melbourne University

Michael Farrell is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. He has previously published articles in JASAL on Ned Kelly's 'Babington Letter' and the billycan in 'Waltzing Matilda'. His most recent poetry book is 'a raiders guide' (Giramondo). Michael is the coeditor (with Jill Jones) of 'Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets' (Puncher and Wattmann).

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Published

2011-09-23

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2011): Special Issue: Archive Madness

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