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Poetic Tracks And Treading On Indigenous Lands: Examining Marlatt And Warland’S And Akiwenzie-Damm’S Literary Travels To Australia And Aotearoa, Christine C. Campana
Poetic Tracks And Treading On Indigenous Lands: Examining Marlatt And Warland’S And Akiwenzie-Damm’S Literary Travels To Australia And Aotearoa, Christine C. Campana
The Goose
This paper considers the work of poets who travel from the area of the Indigenous land of Turtle Island now known as Canada to the Indigenous territories of Australia and Aotearoa. The poets engage in different forms of movement on the land that reveal varying degrees of awareness of and respect for Indigenous sovereignty. In particular, I put “17:00 / coming into Port Pirie” and “30/5 8:50 / past Menindee” from Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland’s 1988 Double Negative, an understudied collection of poetry in which the lesbian poets traverse Australia by train while reflecting on travelling through “(ab) …
Tandem Travel: Reconsidering Road Narratives And Tactics For Subversive Travel, Nicole Emanuel
Tandem Travel: Reconsidering Road Narratives And Tactics For Subversive Travel, Nicole Emanuel
The Goose
Roads are frequently conceptualized as shared spaces that symbolize freedom, despite the fact that they are also tightly monitored sites where laws and public policy hold sway. The fundamental tension between movement on the one hand and restrictive regulation on the other makes the road a particularly paradoxical expression of “the commons.” Another contradictory aspect of roads is that they are often understood as atopic—places that are not really places, but merely a means of conquering time and space to connect a point of origin to a destination. What does it mean to live one’s daily life in such a …
What, Then, Is The Walk?: Reflecting On Pedestrianism In Jane Austen’S Persuasion, Jasmine Redford
What, Then, Is The Walk?: Reflecting On Pedestrianism In Jane Austen’S Persuasion, Jasmine Redford
The Goose
Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818) contains a surprising amount of social walking and leisurely walking parities undertaken by Anne Elliot and her upper-class compatriots. Viewed through an Austenian lens, a reflection of the walk highlights the similarities and differences between nineteenth-century and post-millennial walking for pleasure. What is the cultural history of nineteenth-century pedestrianism in England, and why was it so important in literature and polite society alike? What, then, is the walk? Why indulge in a stroll, a promenade, or a pastoral ramble? How does this sociocultural pedestrianism reinforce the distinction between the classes? Perhaps Austen’s walk, both an …
Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley
Off By Heart Lake, Gayle I. Sacuta
Off By Heart Lake, Gayle I. Sacuta
The Goose
Memoir, history and critique of girlhood on a farm on the Alberta prairie in the 1970's and 1980's.
Representation Matters: Disability And Its Narratives, Sophia M. Shelley
Representation Matters: Disability And Its Narratives, Sophia M. Shelley
Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts
The representation of disabilities is complex and its dissemination through media is prevalent in social construction. In this paper, I will be using identity-first language which places the disability before the person as the descriptor. Through analyzing A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer, this paper investigates what kinds of representation are found in young adult literature and how that representation affects the influence and use of disabilities in the genre. This will be done using narrative frameworks and Julia Kristeva’s social paradigm. Disabled characters frequently suffer from narratives that go against progress in disability discourse and lack …
Gun Island By Amitav Ghosh, Tathagata Som
Gun Island By Amitav Ghosh, Tathagata Som
The Goose
Review of Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island.
Eroded Travel, David Martin
From Beowulf Through Virginia Woolf To The Coastal Wolves Of British Columbia: Animals, Interdisciplinarity And The Environmental Humanities, Pamela Banting
From Beowulf Through Virginia Woolf To The Coastal Wolves Of British Columbia: Animals, Interdisciplinarity And The Environmental Humanities, Pamela Banting
The Goose
Researching and teaching literary works about wild animals within the university system can present productive challenges both within and across disciplinary structures and conventions.
Emptying The Ocean And Other Poems, Kim Fahner
Anatomic By Adam Dickinson, Heather Houser
Anatomic By Adam Dickinson, Heather Houser
The Goose
Review of Adam Dickinson's Anatomic.
Fever Palm, Carol A. Alexander
The Figure Of The Animal In Modern And Contemporary Poetry By Michael Malay, Brian Bartlett
The Figure Of The Animal In Modern And Contemporary Poetry By Michael Malay, Brian Bartlett
The Goose
Review of Michael Malay's The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Fire And Snow: Climate Fiction From The Inklings To Game Of Thrones By Marc Dipaolo, Jamie Campbell Martin
Fire And Snow: Climate Fiction From The Inklings To Game Of Thrones By Marc Dipaolo, Jamie Campbell Martin
The Goose
Review of Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones by Marc DiPaolo
The Ethics And Politics Of Breastfeeding: Power, Pleasure, Poetics By Robyn Lee And Wild Child: Intensive Parenting And Posthumanist Ethics By Naomi Morgenstern, Gina M. Granter
The Goose
Book Review of:
The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding: Power, Pleasure, Poeticsby ROBYN LEE
and
Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethicsby NAOMI MORGENSTERN
River Woman By Katherena Vermette, Jessica I. Ruzek
River Woman By Katherena Vermette, Jessica I. Ruzek
The Goose
Review of Katherena Vermette's river woman
‘Not Shap’D For Sportive Tricks:’ Representations Of Disability In Film And Digital Broadcast Cinema Adaptations Of Early Modern Drama, Grace Mccarthy
‘Not Shap’D For Sportive Tricks:’ Representations Of Disability In Film And Digital Broadcast Cinema Adaptations Of Early Modern Drama, Grace Mccarthy
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
In films that feature disability, we see the recursive and discussion-limiting impulse to say “this representation is negative. Therefore, the representation should not be seen,” based on critical theories and methodologies outside the purview of film studies. Unfortunately, the overlay of an English, narratological, sociological, or medical methodology and terminology onto a film representation of disability is ultimately recursive and self-limiting; critical and advocate calls for accuracy to the lived experience of people with disabilities in on-screen representations decline to engage with the visual construction of cinematic representations of disability and the often fascinating cinematographic and thematic patterns that emerge …
Holy Estrangement: The Poetics Of Estrangement In John Donne's Divine Poems And Sermons, Anton Bergstrom
Holy Estrangement: The Poetics Of Estrangement In John Donne's Divine Poems And Sermons, Anton Bergstrom
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This dissertation examines literary estrangement, that is the act and effect of making the familiar strange in a literary work, in the religious poems and sermons of the poet-preacher John Donne (1572–1631). My study uncovers and explores what Donne "estranges," how he achieves this, and for what purpose, as well as the practices and modes of thinking that shaped his poetics. In Donne's religious verse and prose, making the familiar and traditional tropes, images, doctrines, and events of Christianity strange forms active readers and revitalizes those elements, imbuing them with newfound interest, significance, and affective power.
My study offers a …
Split Tooth By Tanya Tagaq, Brieanna Lebel
Split Tooth By Tanya Tagaq, Brieanna Lebel
The Goose
Review of Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth
Bad Environmentalism: Irony And Irreverence In The Ecological Age By Nicole Seymour, Delia Byrnes
Bad Environmentalism: Irony And Irreverence In The Ecological Age By Nicole Seymour, Delia Byrnes
The Goose
Review of Nicole Seymour’s Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age
Ph: A Novel By Nancy Lord, Jennifer Schell
Ph: A Novel By Nancy Lord, Jennifer Schell
The Goose
Review of Nancy Lord's pH: A Novel
Anthropocene Blues By John Lane, Jessica S. Cory
Anthropocene Blues By John Lane, Jessica S. Cory
The Goose
Review of John Lane's Anthropocene Blues
Shale Play: Poems And Photographs From The Fracking Fields By Julia Spicher Kasdorf And Steven Rubin, Kelly Shepherd
Shale Play: Poems And Photographs From The Fracking Fields By Julia Spicher Kasdorf And Steven Rubin, Kelly Shepherd
The Goose
Review of Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin's Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields
Imagining Action In/Against The Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse And The Necessity Of Alternatives To Effect Resistance, Ariel Kroon
The Goose
The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conception of the contemporary moment, centering the human individual as both responsible for and bearing the responsibility to counteract its numerous interrelated socioeconomic, political, and environmental issues including the staggering loss of biodiversity across the globe and the reality of anthropogenic climate change. This constitutes a significant psychological impasse that disempowers and disenfranchises humans living in this epoch, discouraging any substantive individual effort. Drawing on the posthuman feminist philosophy of theorists such as Rosi Braidotti and Stacy Alaimo together with a reflection of the power of science fiction as a literature of cognitive …
The Mockery Of Things: Material Culture And Domestic Ideology In The Detective Fiction Of Anna Katharine Green, Claire Meldrum
The Mockery Of Things: Material Culture And Domestic Ideology In The Detective Fiction Of Anna Katharine Green, Claire Meldrum
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
The Mockery of Things: Material Culture and Domestic Ideology in the Detective Fiction of Anna Katharine Green examines how a popular genre author like Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) uses objects to articulate middle-class identity and social constructions in late-nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century America. During that era, the home as both a physical space and an ideological signifier was a central tenet in American middle-class identity. Focusing on domestically situated objects – clothing, household furnishings and domestic architecture – this dissertation considers how such items, which have tended to be read in support of domestic identity, instead function within the context …
Border Crossings, Watery Spaces, And The (Un)Verified Self In Middlesex, Jenny Kerber
Border Crossings, Watery Spaces, And The (Un)Verified Self In Middlesex, Jenny Kerber
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
Kerber traces the ways in which water liberates and transforms various characters in Middlesex in order to critique and complicate water’s taken-for-granted liberatory powers. Kerber invites us to consider the majority of those for whom water is as deadly as it is (possibly) emancipating, especially those most vulnerable to climate change and other ecological and violent upheavals.
Ecological Crisis, Or “Intersex Panic,” As Answer Of The Real?, Stephanie Hsu
Ecological Crisis, Or “Intersex Panic,” As Answer Of The Real?, Stephanie Hsu
The Goose
Drawing upon Cal’s eventual metamorphosis into “The [white] Man” in Middlesex, and an examination of the Real of ecological crisis, Hsu explores the intersection of environmental racism, climate change denial, and intersex discrimination in order to advocate for a renewed awareness of ecological interdependency and the need for self-determination of people of colour in ecological and environmental justice discourses.
Trans-Pacific Imaginaries And Queer Intimacies In The Ruins Of Middlesex, Dai Kojima
Trans-Pacific Imaginaries And Queer Intimacies In The Ruins Of Middlesex, Dai Kojima
The Goose
Taking up Roland Barthes’s concept of the “third meaning,” Kojima analyzes the character of Julie Kikuchi, the Japanese American love interest of the grown-up Cal. Taking Julie seriously as a character beyond mere plot contrivance and cultural reference, Kojima invites us to consider the intertwined histories of economic rise and fall, trans-Pacific wars, and other intimacies that Middlesex remains entangled in yet fails to fully acknowledge.
“This Is The Way I Was”: Urban Ethics, Temporal Logics, And The Politics Of Cure, David R. Anderson
“This Is The Way I Was”: Urban Ethics, Temporal Logics, And The Politics Of Cure, David R. Anderson
The Goose
This article employs Eli Clare's concept of the "politics of cure" in order to discuss issues of disability, temporality, and ethical relations to rehabilitation, restoration, and cure in the Sex and the (Motor) City: Ecologies of Middlesex special cluster.
Materialism’S Affective Appeal, Elizabeth Mazzolini
Materialism’S Affective Appeal, Elizabeth Mazzolini
The Goose
Citing the pronounced lack of academic engagement with Middlesex since its publication and riffing on the novel’s recounting of the demise of the auto industry in Detroit, Mazzolini examines how cycles of obsolescence and currency work within academic discourse and ultimately advocates for the novel’s potential for examining the material and affective nature of relevance itself.