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The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality.This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian state of Queensland, the northern coast of which is characterized by these devastating storms. Analyzing a range of works including Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, and Vance Palmer's Cyclone it explains the cyclone in the Queensland literary imagination as an example of a cultural response to weather in a unique regional place. It also situates the cyclones that appear in Queensland literature within the broader global context of literary cyclones.
Chrystopher J. Spicer has written extensively about Australian and American arts and culture. He is currently a cultural historian and adjunct senior research fellow at James Cook University, in Queensland, Australia.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Stephen TorreIntroductionOne. The Cyclone Written into the Language of PlaceTwo. The Naming of the DisasterThree. “Big wind, he waiting there”: Vance Palmer’s Cyclones of Apocalypse and Their Power of RevelationFour. “Touching the edges of cyclones”: Thea Astley’s Cyclones of RevelationFive. Threading the Eye of the Cyclone: Elizabeth Hunter’s Epiphany in Patrick White’s The Eye of the StormSix. Earth Breathing: Susan Hawthorne’s Cyclone WithinSeven. The Apocalypse and Epiphany of Cyclone in the Land of Alexis Wright’s CarpentariaEight. The Word Becomes the Cyclone: Revelations of the Literary StormAppendix A: Fiction and Poetry Written and/or Set in Queensland Featuring CyclonesAppendix B: Selected International Novels and Poetry Works Featuring Cyclonic StormsBibliographyIndex
“The book is a significant achievement and a welcome contribution to the cultural understanding of tropical storms.”—Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies
