11 articles in this issue
Maya Linsley
Nicole Paletta
The portrayal, or lack thereof, of feminine power in Ursula Le Guin’s 1969 novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, is contentious: scholars either praise the text for portrayinga feminist utopia or criticise it for a failed attempt at equalising genders. Using ... see more
Kara Hagedorn
Sara Ahmed’s “Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology” (2006) asserts that queer bodies surface in the heteronormative landscape as disoriented in nature. Her theory of queer phenomenology provides a fresh in-strument for exploring Captain Brierly’s qu... see more
Ella Cuskelly
In The Housekeeper and the Professor (2009), Yoko Ogawa explores domesticity and the everyday for an unconventional family. The everyday that Ogawa creates, however, is an intentional subversion of Japanese cultural expectations of a “normal life.” These ... see more
Kalea Furmanek-Raposo
This paper examines how Kate Beaton represents the Alberta oil sands in her graphic memoir Ducks (2022). Taking an interdisciplinary approach that draws on comics studies and contemporary ethnographies, I argue that Beaton’s visual and textual details mak... see more
Erin Kroi
This essay employs a poststructuralist approach to James Joyce’s Ulysses through affect: the dynamic method that considers bodies and their sensory experiences along-side the emotionally-formed forces that motivate them into relation. Through the examinat... see more
Colleen Bidner
This essay discusses scenes in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853) that involve flowers and the relationship between Lucy Snowe and Monsieur Paul Emmanuel. Their romance demonstrates how Brontë shines a light on the humanity of women when mid-Victorian soc... see more
Jocelyn Diemer
Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is populated by hundreds of animal figures, many of whom are informed by a vast inherited tradition of medieval bestiary animalsymbolism. Taking these bestiary motifs into account and drawing from current trans and anima... see more
Maya Linsley, Rowan Watts