“Big wind, he waiting there”: Vance Palmer’s Cyclones of Apocalypse and Their Power of Revelation
Prior to writing his 1947 novel, Cyclone, Queensland author Vance Palmer drafted out many of his ideas for the story in three earlier short stories: ‘Cyclone’(1932), ‘Big Wind,’ and ‘Tempest,’ both published in 1936. In these stories and the later novel, Palmer develops the cyclone as trope of apoca...
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James Cook University
2016-08-01
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| Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3306/3251 |