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Mosaic, vol. 41, no 2 (juin 2008)

Mosaic, vol. 41, no 2 (juin 2008)

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la revue)

Founded in 1967, the year of Canada's centennial, Mosaic is aninterdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing the very best criticalwork in literature and theory. The journal brings insights from a widevariety 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 oftheory and literary criticism. It publishes contributions from scholarsaround the world and it distributes to 34 countries. In North America,Mosaic is read by subscribers in almost every state and province. Itcan be found in over 500 of the world's major university and collegelibraries.

Vol. 41, no 2 (juin 2008)

Mary Beth Tierney-Tello
Remembering Childhood : Critical Memory Through Text and Image in Miguel Gutiérrez's La destrucción del reino
This essay analyzes the relationship between text and image in La destrucción del reinoby Miguel Gutiérrez, with photographs by Julio Olavarría. The essayargues that the authors perform a critical type of memory work thatallows their art, here photography and narration, to become a methodfor mourning and moving beyond the impasse produced by the guilt andthe sense of loss experienced by the social subject in times of trauma.

Merrill Schleier
The Empire State Building, Working-Class Masculinity, and King Kong
King Kong achieves mastery over Manhattan atop the Empire StateBuilding before his ineluctable fall. This essay analyzes the EmpireState Corporation's textual and visual propaganda, much of which wasdisplaced onto Kong, concluding that both giant ape and skyscraper weredual ciphers of the Depression era's heroic and exploited multiethnicconstruction workers.

Kristin Dykstra
"A Just Image" : Poetic Montage and Cuba's Special Period in La foto del invernadero
This essay explores La foto del invernadero, a book by ReinaMaría Rodríguez, who recycles an array of materials in poetic montage.It gives special attention to two texts (one written, one visual): Camera Lucida and Guerrillero Heroico. The essay concludes with the poet's questioning of revolutionary optics and generations.


Bruce Suttmeier
Assassination on the Small Screen : Images and Writing in Ōe Kenzaburō
This essay explores the status, form and phenomenology of images(largely televised images) in Ōe Kenzaburō's 1961 two-part story“Seventeen,” a fictionalization of the famous 1960 politicalassassination of the Japanese Socialist Party Chairman that wascaptured on video and broadcast incessantly on national television.

Debora van Durme
Edith Sitwell's Carnivalesque Song : The Hybrid Music of Façade
For its public premiere at London's Aeolian Hall in 1923, Edith Sitwell's poetry cycle Façade, set to music by William Walton, was advertised as “A New and Original Musical Entertainment.” By examining Façade's manifold links with art and popular music, this essay seeks to unearth the implications of that commercial catchphrase.

Caleb Smith
Bodies Electric : Gender, Technology, and the Limits of the Human, circa 1900
This essay considers the imagery of electrified female bodies in HenryAdams's “The Virgin and the Dynamo,” Henry James's “In the Cage,” andthe case of Martha Place, the first woman executed in the electricchair. It explores how male authorities imagined the attractions andrepulsions of an emergent, gendered “posthumanism.”

Philippe Willems
"The Strangest of Narrative Forms" : Rodolphe Töpffler's Sequential Art
Rodolphe Töpffer changed sequential art forever by giving itunprecedented narrative resolution. An atypical cultural artifactwithin its own cultural environment, it has remained a problematiccultural object to name and define, its hybridity not just a factor ofimage and word but also of static and dynamic.

Michelle Balaev
Trends in Literary Trauma Theory
This essay examines the dominant psychology model of trauma in literarycriticism, especially intergenerational trauma theory, introducingalternative approaches for analysis of trauma in literature, includingplace theory. The essay analyzes the function of the traumatizedprotagonist in fiction and discusses the influence of place in thereformulation of the self.

Rebecca Duncan
Life as Pi as Postmodern Survivor Narrative
Although both popular and literary survivor stories have receivedcritical attention for several decades, there has been littlesystematic contemplation of survival in a postmodern context. YannMartel's Life of Pi offers a fictional articulation of a postmodern identity as it shapes and is shaped by a narrative of trauma.