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Mosaic, vol. 39, no. 2, June 2006

Mosaic, vol. 39, no. 2, June 2006

Publié le par Julien Desrochers

Founded in 1967, the year of Canada's centennial, Mosaic is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing the very best critical work in literature and theory. The journal brings insights from a wide variety of disciplines to bear on literary texts, cultural climates, topical issues, divergent art forms and modes of creative activity. Mosaic combines rigorous scholarship with cutting-edge exploration of theory and literary criticism. It publishes contributions from scholars around the world and it distributes to 34 countries. In North America, Mosaic is read by subscribers in almost every state and province. It can be found in over 500 of the world's major university and college libraries.

Volume 39 - No. 2
(June 2006) :

One of the compelling themes taken up in this issue is that of literature's relation to violence. What is the “poetics of violence,” and  what might be the relation of art to terror? Look for several different answers to these questions in the ten essays this issue includes: 

Sharon Smulders, “‘A Double Assault': The Victimization of Aboriginal Women and Children in In Search of April Raintree;”

Leonard Wilcox, “Terrorism and Art: Don DeLillo's Mao II and Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism;”

Walter Corbella, “Strategies of Resistance and the Problem of Ambiguity in Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran;”

Hye Ryoung Kil, “Conrad's ‘Undying Hope' of the Polish Nation: Western Ideal and Eastern Reality;”

Christine Kim, “Postcolonial Romance, Ghostly Love Stories, and The Heart Does Not Bend;”

Andrew Hock-Soon Ng, “Malaysian Gothic: The Motif of Haunting in K. S. Maniam's ‘Haunting the Tiger' and Shirley Lim's ‘Haunting;'”

Halia Koo, “(Wo)men Travellers: Physical and Narrative Boundaries;”

Tara Collington, “Self and Narrative in Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein;”

Tita Chico, “Minute Particulars: Microscopy and Eighteenth-Century Narrative;” Carol Ann Wald, “Reflexivity, Reproduction, and Evolution: From von Neumann to Powers.”