AustLit

David Sornig explores the idea that Andrew McCann's Subtopia and Christos Tsiolkas's Dead Europe render 'versions of Berlin, and engage the narrative uncertainty of the fall of the Berlin Wall in a way that can be read to follow from Derrida's exploration of the logic of the ghost, the hauntology he describes in Specters of Marx, which suggests that the presence of the past should be interrogated not as a final post-Historical object, as Fukuyama [in The End of History and The Last Man] might suggest, but rather as this heterogeneous inheritance, as multiple as its iterations'.

Sornig discusses the ways in which McCann's and Tsiolkas's narratives 'weigh the eschatological status of Berlin'.

Nathanael O'Reilly discusses his experience of teaching Australian literature in the United States for three main purposes: 'to encourage other scholars of Australian literature outside of Australia to offer courses in Australian literature; to provide some insight into the issues faced during the process of establishing and teaching an Australian literature course; and to share some of the responses of American students to Australian literature'.