The Garden (Mosaic, December 2005)

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 38, Number 4, December 2005

Special Issue : The Garden

Beginning with a full color signature of artist Don Reichert's landscape paintings and digital photographs, this special issue includes twelve essays that read "the garden" in diverse and provocative ways. Here you will find, among other things, the Victorian garden; de Beauvoir's ideas on the relation of the subject to space and travel; the garden politics of Roethke and Heaney; hybridity, postcolonial hybridity included; gardening in the age of electronic reproduction; the garden in its multiple contexts in Canada, the USA and Latin America; a case of invading flying foxes in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens; and the botanical garden as trope. These are essays that take you through the flora and fauna of various world literatures and that open up multiple critical possibilities.

ARTICLES:

Bats in the Gardens, by Helen Tiffin

‘Il faut cultiver son jardin': Beauvoir and the limits of space, by Amanda Crawley Jackson

True Matters Concealed: Utopia, Desire, and Enlightenment in Honglou meng, by Mark Ferrara

Hothouse Weeds: Poetic Responses to the Botanical Garden in Modern Japan, by Dennitza Gabrakova

“Hothouse Flowers and Despair”: Reading the Victorian Garden in M.E. Braddon's The Doctor's Wife, by Narin Hassan

The Garden and its Multiple Contexts in Canada, the United States and Latin America, by Patrick Imbert   

Gardening in the Age of Electronic (Re)production: Walter Benjamin and the Work of Teaching, by Barbara Langhorst

Booker T. Washington, August Wilson and the Shadows in the Garden, by Ladrica Menson-Furr  

“Bare Life” and the Garden Politics of Roethke and Heaney, by Michael O'Sullivan  

Gardening in the Diaspora: Place and Identity in Olive Senior's Poetry, by Jordan Stouck

Cape Gooseberries and Giant Cauliflowers: Transplantation, Hybridity, and Growth in Bessie Head's A Question of Power, by Anissa Talahite

Au nom du discours amoureux : Une étude glissantienne de Gouverneurs de la Rosée et Romeo and Juliet, by Jason Herbeck