Recently added articles from Mosaic (Winnipeg):

Introduction.(Mosaic's anniversary)

Mar 01, 2008; McCance, Dawne ... A fortieth birthday can come as a shock, not only to the celebrant but also to his or her parents. Mosaic turned forty this year. So far at least, the anniversary has not occasioned a mid-life crisis, although it has encouraged us at Mosaic to reflect on the journal's past four decades, to ...

Ecology, coloniality, modernity: Argentine fictions of tierra del fuego.

Mar 01, 2008; Rhoden, Laura Barbas ... In recent decades, numerous Latin American artists and theorists have invited their readers to see "Western Civilization" and the story of its elaboration from below, that is to say, from the global South. Publications that challenged representations of history and cultural encounters ...

The "Hottentot Venus," sexuality, and the changing aesthetics of race, 1650-1850.

Mar 01, 2008; Hudson, Nicholas ... As now widely recognized in modern scholarship, changing conceptions of race, beauty, and sexuality during the eighteenth century must be regarded as interrelated phenomena in a broader transformation of Western culture. None of these categories emerged in isolation from the others. In ...

Buried in the bedroom: bearing witness to incest in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".(Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart)

Mar 01, 2008; Kachur, Robert M. ... Gothic horror's association with the unspeakable is nowhere more apparent than in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." The story's narrator himself cannot satisfactorily articulate his motivation for stalking and murdering an apparently kind old man. Because the "mad" narrator's explanation of his ...

Modern female Aboriginal subjectivity (in) the land: Mourning Dove's Cogewea.

Mar 01, 2008; Narduzzi, Dilia ... <Pre> "Isn't it grand?" she questioned. "These are my prairies, my mountains, my Eden. I could live here always! I shall hate to leave them when the final summons comes. Wherever I go, I recall every outline of those embattled ranges, nor can the vision close at the grave. When away, I ...

Derek Jarman's "ghostly eye": prophetic Bliss and sacrificial blindness in Blue.

Mar 01, 2008; Higginson, Kate ... Celebrated as a prominent avant-garde director, Derek Jarman quipped that he preferred to be known as "a painter who dabbled in another art form, namely cinema" (qtd. in Lawrence 248). He could also aptly be billed as an innovative gardener; the author of a body of sophisticated, ...

"Finding out things like that": film and the search for reality in BUtterfield 8.

Mar 01, 2008; Haytock, Jennifer ... In John O'Hara's second novel BUtterfield 8, Gloria Wandrous imagines her friend's future married life as a "motion picture," which she tries to reject as simply her own fantasy. She cannot dismiss it, however, "because the picture was accurate, and she knew it" (187). Gloria does not draw ...

On the feeling invested in objects: Gonzalez's sculptures and Stewart's narratives of longing.(Ronald Gonzalez and Susan Stewart)

Mar 01, 2008; Bidney, Martin ... The sculptures of Ronald Gonzalez overwhelmingly embody the theme of longing. Elaborating that broad concern, they are unpredictably various. They often frame life in the perspective of death and loss. Yet, among the hundreds of his works I have looked at, we find wit and humour, ...

Ken Wiwa and the death of the father.

Mar 01, 2008; Osinubi, Taiwo Adetunji ... <Pre> I was conscious that there were many more experienced and more knowledgeable Nigerians in exile, yet I was the name and the face that the world's media came to for analysis of the situation there. Was I going to remain in exile forever, adrift from home and the rest of my family? ...

Reconciling film studies and geography: Adolfo Bioy Casares's La invencion de Morel.

Mar 01, 2008; Fraser, Benjamin ... <Pre> If [ ...] matter is the inverse of consciousness, if consciousness is action unceasingly creating and enriching itself, whilst matter is action continually unmaking itself or using itself up, then neither matter nor consciousness can be explained apart from one another. --Henri ...

Consciousness as content: neuronarratives and the redemption of fiction.

Mar 01, 2008; Johnson, Gary ... The opening chapter of David Lodge's 2001 novel, Thinks ..., presents a self-conscious exercise in stream-of-consciousness narration. Ralph Messenger, Lodge's co-protagonist, is a cognitive scientist endeavouring to understand and describe the workings of the human mind. As the work ...