A key aim for this project has been to attract scholarly attention to the literary surf genres – surf fiction, surf poetry and surf memoir...
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This paper provides an historic overview of literary efforts to conjure the ethereal, multi-sensory experience of wave-riding.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleOur bodily engagements with the sea can engender a sense of oneness; literature about the sea, and about surfing, often reflects this...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleMy goal in writing this essay is to reflect the cultural unity that created the paddle-out ceremony by combining written and oral histories evoking key aspects of surf culture identity.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleAn enigmatic installation of 30 wave riders displayed in the Bamboo Temple in Yunnan Province (southwest China) suggests a ‘different beginning’, disconnected from the Polynesian version of the sport...
This is what it feels like, to be in this city full of hot salty breath, full of long languid lines, frayed on the edges...
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This paper looks at the first three novels that featured surfing, to examine why the authors wrote about surfing in conjunction with themes of battle and contest.
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A spate of shark attacks has turned the town of Ballina on the Far North Coast of New South Wales into a place with underlying Gothic tones...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article surveys published narratives about surfing and sharks in Australia over the past century, mapping representations across various genres and forms of writing.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis paper examines the development of surf fiction from 1849 to 1940. At the surf fiction genre’s beginnings, the view taken of surfing was shaped by the white worldview.