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Author: Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds)
Volume 10 No. 2 of Cultural Studies Review comes with the tag, 'Haunted’. At Port Arthur, Maria Tumarkin finds there are memories, traces of things heard and seen, but there are also feelings tingling up your spine, because this site of trauma is like a museal tomb of the living dead. Death is the repeated fact of this place which functions to focus our attention on the essentially cultural problem of the here and the hereafter, and the curious ways the dead remain, as she says, 'undiminished'.
In other essays Julia Yonetari considers the history wars in Australia and Japan, Kane Race explores how the fear of drugs, like those other everyday fears that circulate so insistently today, haunts not only the nation but also our domestic lives. In the Provocations section, Gillian Cowlishaw writes about racism at the dinner table and Alan McKee wonders about whether penis size really matters. The New Writing section has but one piece and it creates a Vaclav meandering through Prague where the contemporary cultures of tourism, art and politics surge up, transform, and surprise each other on street corners.
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