NEBULA6.3, September 2009
Fewer issues have contained such widely divergent articles as this quarter's issue and this poses a challenge for an introductory piece of writing such as this. Nevertheless, one can grasp the congruity of possible connections between an article on the teleological relationship between mythology and misogyny, and another on the study of English soccer hypermasculinities. Taking us further into this pursuit of the gender question is Omolola Ladele's literary criticism, where intersections between postcolonial and feminist theory are explored. James Arvanitakis's piece poses a genderless question of social rights and provides a much needed historiography for a rapidly forgetful Australian people. If you come here in search of the cerebral, the theoretically complex abstractions of mind and cognition, Faucher's latest Nebula instalment, together with Fleming and O'Carrol and Roach's articles will fulfil the needs of your search. Homer's piece integrates well into the folds of an issue with a significant presence of cultural studies, best represented by Redhead's encyclopaedic and extensive scholarship on English Soccer Fandom, while Victor Edo furnishes us with the latest instalment of his extensive Benin historiography.
Samar Habib
Editor
Nebula
Contents:
Note on Contributors i-iii
Catherine Akca and Ali Gunes. Male Myth-Making: The Origins of Feminism. 1-15
Steve Redhead. Hooligan Writing and the Study of Football Fan Culture: Problems and Possibilities. 16-41
Kane X. Faucher. Sphacelated Grammars (or: Language Likes to Hide). 42-52
James Arvanitakis. Surviving Neo-Liberalism: NGOs Under the Howard Years 53-69
Omolola Ladele. Reconstructing Identities Through Resistance in Postcolonial Womens Writing: A Reading of Akachi Ezeigbos The Last of the Strong Ones. 70-84
Matthew Homer. Beyond the Studio: The Impact of Home Recording Technologies on Music Creation and Consumption. 85-99
John OCarroll and Chris Fleming. Is Nothing Sacred? Privatization and the Person. 100-120
Emmanuel Folorunso Taiwo. An Interface of the Old and the New: Creating the Conscious Nigerian via an Interrogation of Sophocles Antigone in Osofisans Tegonni. 121-133
Victor Osaro Edo. The 1897 British Expedition in Historical Perspective: Its Lessons and Challenges. 134-142
Matthew Ingram. Guitar Hero World Tour: a Creator of New Sonic Experiences? 143-154
Thomas J. Roach. Sense and Sexuality: Foucault, Wojnarowicz, and Biopower. 155-173
NEBULA6.2, June 2009
It is my pleasure to once more resume the duty of introducing a new Nebula issue. I hope, however, that the reader won't find me too rusty in this new attempt after a significant absence from the task. This issue opens with an interview with the unique and courageous Sarojini Sahoo, who penetrates through taboo effortlessly and necessarily. Continuing this concern for sexual and bodily rights, Sarah Antinora's submission comes at a time when the US's 44th president announces that, as a Christian, he believes in the sanctity of heterosexual marriage, reinforcing and validating institutional heterosexim by continuing to support the Defence of Marriage Act. James Keller continues this interrogation of U.S. civil rights poverty for LGBT persons by revisiting residual sodomy laws five years after the landmark Lawrence vs. Texas case. Although still a part of the Free World, the US seems to be now at the rear end of it, leaving European countries like the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and neighbouring Canada in north America at the forefront. Nevertheless, US states like Iowa and New Hampshire do deserve an honorary mention in this brief statement. Tata's contribution to this issue is nothing short of poetic prose that celebrate the glory of screen villianesses: consumable, disposable and grand. A word of caution: Tata's style and wit may leave you breathless, admiring, astonished. Professor Redhead's contribution takes us through the vistas of English (military and urban) history via the enduring artefact of the 'bunker,' while Chris Vanderwees engages our critical and metaphyscial faculties in evaluating criticism of Harraway's The Companion Species Manifesto. And just when we continue our descent into the darkness at the heart of the human condition, with Ayobami Kehinde's analysis of two of Graham Greene's dystopian narratives, we are reminded of the humble greatness of imagination when combined with intellect in Schaberg's original piece. Alice Mills' short story is the first we have featured in some time and it has been well worth the wait. I shall leave the remaining contributions for you to discover without my whispers, delivering you some mystery that you can investigate.
Samar Habib
Editor
Contents:
Notes on contributors. i-iii
An Interview with Sarojini Sahoo, by Nilanshu Kumar Agwaral: Voice of Protest against Universal Male Sexual Sadism."
Sarah Antinora. Its a Long Way Coming: The Importance of Humanising the Same-Sex Marriage Discussion.
James Keller. Disorderly Conduct: an Interrogation of Residual Sodomy Laws Five Years after Lawrence vs. Texas.
Steve Redhead. Before the Bunker.
Michael Angelo Tata. Footballers Wive$ Tanya Turner: Bolivian Marching Powder, Booze and Baby Snatching = D.I.V.A.!
Chris Vanderwees. Companion Species under Fire: A Defense of Donna Haraways The Companion Species Manifesto.
Ayobami Kehinde. The Modern World through the Luminous Path of Prose Fiction: Reading Graham Greenes A Burnt-out Case and The Confidential Agent as Dystopian Novels.
Christopher Schaberg. Bird Citing: On the Aesthetics and Techno-Poetics of Flight.
Uzoechi Nwagbara. State Violence and the Writer: Towards the Dialectics of Intellectual Militancy in Transcending Postcolonical Nigerian Contradictions.
Wilson Koh. Put Not Your Trust in Princes:Fables and the Problematisation of Everyday Life.
Afrin Zeenat. Writing Irish Nationhood: Jonathan Swifts Coming to Terms with his Birthplace.
Alice Mills. Nights at the airport.
J.A. Adegun and E.P. Konwea. The Prevalence of Hypokinetic Disorders Among Workers in Tertiary Institutions in Ekiti State, Nigeria.
Nebula6.1, March 2009
This issue of Nebula, like its predecessors, invites an engagement with diversity. Reading it, I rediscovered the pleasure of encountering unexpected resonances between these apparently disparate pieces, an experience that is all the more engrossing in an issue that encompasses a series of interrogations of various kinds of continuity. Monica F. Jacobe, Lee Barron, Walter L. Williams, and Brabazon, Dear, Greene and Purdy all ask questions about the continuity of identity. Gaining Imperial Paradise asks questions about the interplay between the literatures of the colonised and the colonisers. Reflective Solutions examines the role of language in dissent, asking questions about the continuity of speech and action and offering an interesting contrast to Philip Santa-Marias essay Virtuous Victims of an Enlightenment Paradox, which questions the continuity between speech and action in the ethics of Benjamin Franklin. There are many more intriguing confluences here, most of which, Im sure, have yet to be unearthed. This is fertile ground. Happy reading.
Joshua Meyer
Editor
Australian Nebula Collective
Contents
Walter L. Williams. Strategies for Challenging Homophobia in Islamic Malaysia and Secular China. 1-20
Kane X. Faucher. What is a Question? 21-37
Pramod Nayar. Popular Culture and the Ecological Gothic: Frank Millers Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. 38-50
Shaun Randol. The Conscientious Objectors in Iraq: Placing them in an Historical Context. 51-65
Philip Santa-Maria. Virtuous Victims of an Enlightenment Paradox. 66-77
Lee Barron. Droogs, Electro-Voodoo and Kyborgs: Pastiche, Postmodernism and Kylie Minogue Live. 78-92
Grace V. S. Chin. Reading the Postcolonial Allegory in Beth Yahps The Crocodile Fury: Censored Subjects, Ambivalent Spaces, and Transformative Bodies. 93-115
Michael U. C. Ejieh. The Universal Basic Education as an Effective Strategy for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria. 116-121
Monica F. Jacobe. Society Cannot be Flat: Hierarchy and Power in Gullivers Travels. 122-131
Rajiv Menon. Gaining Imperial Paradise: Reading and Rewriting Paradise Lost in Colonial Bengal.132-140
Christopher Mulrooney. Five Poems. 141-145
Ron Smith. The Canadians (1961): No Singing Please. 146-162
Tara Brabazon, Zanna Dear, Grantley Greene and Abigail Purdy Why the Google Generation Will Not Speak: The Invention of Digital Natives. 163-181
Nebula5.4, December 2008
This issue of Nebula draws together a diversity of subjects and approaches to academic writing. Its heterogeneity provides the opportunity to map some unexpected intersections, and to explore a variegated terrain. Momin Rahmans In Search of My Mothers Garden offers the term intersectionality as a way of charting the copresent cartographies of space and identity. Its a term that might be used as a key for this issue from the spatial intersections mapped on the skin, which occupy Ahmad M.S. Abu Bakers reading of The English Patient and Isam M. Shihadas figuration of The Story of Zahra, to the philosophical crossroads traversed by Gerry Coulter. And there are thematic intersections between otherwise dislocated landscapes; Mike Kents exploration of the digital divide, for example, offers an intriguing point at which to enter the discussion of educational resource allocation in Nigeria. The collection for this issue is arranged with such intersections in mind, but they are of course guided by my own explorations. I invite you to explore this diverse topography for yourself and I hope you find it as enjoyable a space as I have.
Joshua Meyer
Editor
Australian Nebula Collective
Contents
Note on contributors i-iv
Momin Rahman, In Search of My Mothers Garden: Reflections on Migration, Sexuality and Muslim Identity. 1-25
Julie Richko Labate, The Clover and the Cactus: Nineteenth-Century Life in Southeast Texas. 26-42.
Ahmad M.S. Abu Baker, Almásys Desire for Identity Erasure in Michael Ondaatjes The English Patient. 43-45.
Lee Barron, The Seven Ages of Kylie Minogue: Postmodernism, Identity, and Performative Mimicry. 46-63.
Anna Notaro, Swoosh time: Nikes Art of Speed advertizing campaign and the Blogosphere. 64-83.
Mike Kent, Digital Divide 2.0 and the Digital Subaltern. 84-97.
F.O. Afolabi, L.M. Oyewusi and M.A Ajayi., Allocation and Management of Resources for the Sustenance of Free Qualitative Secondary Education in Ondo State. 98-108.
J. Gregory Keller and Rob Helfenbein, Spirituality, Economics, and Education: A Dialogic Critique of Spiritual Capital." 109-128.
Oswald Yuan-Chin Chang, Tomson Highways The Rez Plays: Theater as the (E)Merging of Native Ritual through Postmodernist Displacement. 129-144.
Gerry Coulter, Baudrillard and Hölderlin and the Poetic Resolution of the World. 145-164.
Anthony Metivier, Hypnotist , Philosopher, Serial Killer, Friend: A Critical Review of Ian Bradys The Gates of Janus. 165-176.
Isam M. Shihada, Engendering War in Hanan Al Shaykhs The Story of Zahra. 177-192.
Joseph Benjamin Afful, Research Proposal and Thesis Writing: Narrative of a Recently Graduated Researcher in Applied Linguistics. 193-211.
I. A. Ajayi and Haastrup T. Ekundayo, The Deregulation of University Education in Nigeria: Implications for Quality Assurance. 212-224.
Uzoechi Nwagbara, Political Power and Intellectual Activism in Tanure Ojaides The Activist. 225-253.
Nebula 5.3, September 2008
This issue of Nebula features a collection of pieces that examine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a relatively consistent set of personal and critical lenses. Many of these pieces take on the difficult task of speaking for ordinary Palestinians, providing a series of challenging, thought provoking encounters. But where the consistency of critical focus that enables such important and generative provocation is perhaps a little less "nebulous" than usual, the object of that focus is itself suggestive of another metaphoric working of nebulousness.
Diffuse nebulae have no clear borders. Though they may appear to us through imperfect mediation as indistinct masses stained by fierce bands of light, they are also the collective shape of a whole series of complex, interlocking tensions. Apprehending the forms of these tensions, too often at the limits of our vision, requires a perspective that prioritises both depth and diversity. While I hope not to stretch the metaphor too far, I would add that the articles in this issue make significant contributions to the acquisition of such a perspective. I hope they engage you as much as they did me.
Joshua Meyer
Editor
Australian Nebula Collective
Contents:
Note on contributors i-iii
Samar Habib. "Foreword." iv
Haidar Eid. Introduction: Countering the Nakba 1-7
Tanya Reinhart. In Memory of Edward Said 8-24
Clare Brandabur. Roadmap to Genocide 25-48
Kathy Zarur Palestinian Art and Possibility: Made in Palestine, an Examination. 49-60
Ilan Pappe The One Palestine: Past, Present and Future Perspectives. 61-77
Savera Kalideen & Haidar Eid A One State Solution for the Palestine-Israel Conflict: an Interview with Ali Abunimah 78-82
John Halaka. Outsiders on the Inside. 83-110
Haidar Eid & Khaled Ghazal Edward Said: Agent Provocateur. 111-121
Haidar Eid. The Zionist-Palestinian Conflict: an Alternative Story. 122-139
NEBULA 5.1/5.2, June 2008
Last night I was watching a documentary about the Hubble telescope. It showed how Hubble has brought disparate and faraway stars, planets and galaxies into focus, illuminating dark matter and revealing to us things we hadnt even dreamed existed. The internet is in some ways our invisible, earthbound telescope, allowing instant access to faraway places, collecting data on disparate ideas about the universe, and bringing our very large and yet very tiny world closer together. In this issue of Nebula we have a number of essays that focus their gaze upon different parts of the world and their local specificities: bringing to our attention the role that British colonialism played in creating a centralised monarchy among the Nigerian ethnic group of Ebiraland; to considering the poetic politics of Emirates poet Saleha Obeid Ghabesh; the theme of return in the work of Palestinian author Samira Azzam; or what the Academy Awards ceremonies reflect about United States culture. Geography plays a pertinent part in creating our realities, and this issue features articles that discuss what cities mean to their musical soundscapes, and the role of maps in weaving the texture of literature such as The English Patient. So too does this issue address those moments when our lenses into other places can be faulty or unable to effect change, as seen in the biased reporting in the United States media about the Al-Aqsa intafada, or the inability of the United Nations Security Council to enforce its 1967 Resolution 242. Other essays turn their attention to questions that resonate with history, whether this be in re-examining the philosophy of Epicurus, or Confucian perspectives on music education. Today more than ever, we interact with technologies on a daily basis, and in this issue of Nebula we have essays spotlighting how we interact with these technologies, from the popularity of social networking sites to the growth of a digital intellect. I hope you will enjoy this issue of Nebula, and it will fulfil its mission of bringing into view a diverse variety of ideas about and examinations of humanity and its cultural creations.
Dr. Rebecca Beirne
Editor
Australian Nebula Collective
CONTENTS
Note on contributors i-iii
Kane X. Faucher. An Attempt to Reconcile Epicurus` Hedonism with His Epistemology and More Particularly with His Physics. 1-12.
Victor Osaro Edo. The Evolution and Development of Central Administration in Ebiraland, 1920-1997. 13-27.
Paul Booth. Mediating New Technology: the Realization of a Digital Intellect.
28-43.
Jim Kent. Social Networking Sites: will they survive. 44-50.
Tara Brabazon and Stephen Mallinder. Lots of Planets Have a North: Remodeling Second-Tier Cities and their Music. 51-73.
Saddik Gohar. Toward a Revolutionary Emirati Poetics : Ghabesh's Beman Ya Buthayn Taluthin? 74-87.
Nejmeh Khalil-Habib. Al-Awda: the Theme of Return in Contemporary Arabic Literature, a Case-Study of Samira Azam. 88-97.
98-109.
Robert Goff. No Ceremony for Older Women: Some Observations on the 2008 Academy Awards Broadcast. 110-127.
Ji Yue. Confucius On Music Education. 128-133.
Yashar Keramati. An Historical Analysis of United States Newspapers Bias in Reporting the Al-Aqsa Intifada.134-155.
Yashar Keramati. The Lack of Implementation of United Nations Security Councils 242 Resolution: The Constructivists Delusion and The Marxist and Realists Explanation. 156-163.
Victor Osaro Edo. "The Changing Phases of Power and Civil Administration in Benin: From Inception to 1987," 164-173
NEBULA 4.4, December 2007
Editing an online journal such as Nebula is always a pleasure, not only because of the quality of the submissions we receive for each issue, or the variety of topics that tend to be covered on a quarterly basis or the delightful synchronicities that make themed issues out of a journal decidedly open to the gesture of the un-themed. It is not only for these reasons that Nebula brings us a great deal of pleasure and privilege to produce, it is also the power and privilege that such a journal brings in terms of connecting scholars and scholarships across the world. I certainly look forward to a fifth year of Nebula in 2008 where I hope we can continue to produce scholarship relevant to the state of the world and our role within it.
Samar Habib
Editor
Note on Contributors i-iii
Federico Sabatini. Louise Bourgeois: An Existentialist Act of Self-Perception. 1-10
Steven Drakeley. Lubang Buaya: Myth, Misogyny and Massacre. 11-35
Hatim Mahamid. The Construction of Islamic-Educational Institutions in Mamluk Gaza. 36-40
Yasmin Ibrahim. Transformation as Narrative and Process: Locating Myth and Mimesis in Reality TV. 41-58
Zaid Mahir. The Nights Singer of Tales: Performing Tradition in the Story of the King of China's Hunchback. 59-96
Juno Galang. Selected Writings
97-100
Oswald Yuan Chin Chang. Home, Journey and Landscape in Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain: the Mirroring of Internal Processes in the External World and the Literary Construction of Space. 101-120
Abayomi Daramola. Sokoro Sakara: A Contextual and Gender Analysis of Some Offensive Yoruba Proverbial Songs. 121-130
Nizar F. Hermes. King Arthur in the Lands of the Saracens. 131-145
Wisam Mansour. Humor, Literary Theory and Terror. 146-150
Ryan McIlhenny. The Postmodern Condition as a Religious Revival: A Critical Review of William Connollys Why I am Not a Secularist, Dipesh Chakrabartys Provincializing Europe, and Alvin Plantingas Warranted Christian Belief. 151-163
Joseph Taylor. The lady Iraq. 164
NEBULA 4.3, September 2007
The need to promote core human values that could facilitate an agenda for democracy, social justice and sustainable socio-economic development throughout the globe has always been paramount to Nebula. Indeed, the forces of globalization have further enmeshed the global space to the extent that we can no longer afford to luxuriate in knowledge simply for knowledges sake. Interestingly, the vision of Nebula is not just the mere acquisition of knowledge but for the understanding and positive transformation of our world. The articles in Nebula 4.3 aptly capture these vistas of hope and renewal. As usual, the contributors to this edition are drawn from various geographical, disciplinary and ideological backgrounds, hence the variety of styles and approaches. This easily discernible trend, however, seems to be one of the major strengths of Nebula 4.3 because each contributor brings into his/ her article his/her own insight and disciplinary perspective. This, no doubt, has further enriched the collection and broadened the multidisciplinary and theoretical horizons of the journal. Like the previous editions, this particular issue confirms the fact that every discipline reinforces the other. Thus, the ultimate goal is to bridge the artificial academic boundaries created by the apostles of disciplinary exclusivity. Consequently, the issues raised in this edition dovetail into literature, philosophy, sociology, democracy, development economics, gendered proverbs, corruption and so on. This wonderful package is vintage Nebula; a multidisciplinary journal par excellence.
Olukoya Ogen,
African Regional Editor
Contents:
Note on contributors
Lopamudra Basu. Crossing Cultures/ Crossing Genres: The Re-invention of the Graphic Memoir in Persepolis and Persepolis 2. 1-19
Dvir Abramovich. The Holocaust World of Yechiel Fajner. 20-39
Michael Angelo Tata. "Rrose Sélavy, Barbarella, Madonna: Cybersublimity after the Orgasmotron." 40-62
A.A. Asiyanbola. "A Syntactic and Semiotic Analysis of Some Yoruba Sexist Proverbs in English Translation: Need for Gender Balance." 63-78
Sarah Atkinson. Crossed Lines: The Creation of a Multiform, Multiscreen Interactive Film. 79-100
Mike Kent. New Technology and the Universal Service Obligation in Australia: Drifting towards Exclusion? 101-124
Ahmad Abu Baker. The Theme of Futility in War Poetry. 125-140
Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful. Academic Literacy and Communicative Skills in the Ghanaian University: A Proposal. 141-160
Tara Brabazon and Stephen Mallinder. Into the Night-Time Economy: Work, Leisure, Urbanity and the Creative Industries. 161-178
Sunday Adejimola Amuseghan and Akinrelere Lucy Olayinka. An Evaluation of Intensive English (Book I) as a Coursebook for English as Second Language in Nigeria. 179-201
Carra Hood. There is no (such) Place Like Home: Rhetoricizing Kansas after Oz. 202-213
Ismail Baroudy. In Search of a Remedial Philosophy: A Consecutive Study of Hafez and Goethe. 214-245
Oswald Yuan Chin Chang. Connections, Dislocations and Displacements: Personal and Societal Relationships in Nilo Cruzs Anna in the Tropics and Leo Tolstoys Anna Karenina. 246-265
Ayo Ogunsiji. Aspects of the Phono-Graphological Design in Soyinkas Faction. 266-279
Tom Murphy. Cyborg Ontology in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas On the Road to Consciousness: The Red Shark, The White Whale & Reading The Textual Body. 280-291
Stephen Mallinder. Sheffield is not Sexy. 292-327
Rickey L. Cole and Kimberly S. Adams. Mississippi: An Emerging Democracy Creating a Culture of Civic Participation among Formerly Oppressed Peoples. 328-338
Yemi Adegoju. Corruption of Language and Nigerias Debased Value System. 339-356
NEBULA4.2, June 2007
A nebula could have been so many astronomical entities: a black hole, a supermassive black hole, a white hole, a syzygy, a neutron star, a white dwarf, a red giant. Nebula becomes a nebula because it exemplifies and embodies the dual pulsations of explosion and implosion; the scattering of matter limitlessly through a galaxy and its concentration in a point of pure density; the expansion and dissolution of objects lodged precariously in a space simultaneously supporting their mass and swallowing them up.
In a nebula, matter of all ilks detonates, consumed by the fiery passion of an excess energy which no spatial limit can hope to absorb. Nebula 4.2 also contains its fair share of concatenations, some of them aesthetic, others political, all of them resonant with contemporary cultural, philosophical, textual and visual concerns.
Genres redefine themselves through the international coming out/coming in story, the interactive feature film, the poeticization of post-60s rock n roll, and anarcho-Taoist approaches to feminist science fiction. By their side, other constellations burst into flames: politically, a post-Oslo Palestine articulates the necessity of self-determination in the wake of colonial bellicosity, and a manifesto of technological existentialism enters the cyborg fray with a fresh perspective on the moral relevance of corporeal modification. Enjoy these fluctuations and make them yours.
Michael Angelo Tata
US Editor, Nebula Collective
NEBULA 4.1, March 2007
This issue of Nebula is our largest volume to date, spanning over two-hundred and eighty pages, including nineteen articles by eighteen different authors, widely divergent topics, three independent mentions of Lao Tzu by three unrelated authors, and some rare and impressive scholarship across the board, not to mention impeccable creative work .... what more could an editor ask for? What other reward more fulfilling?
-Samar Habib, Editor.
Contents:
Notes on Contributors. i-iv.Maria Beville. "The Gothic-postmodernist "Waste Land" of Ellowen Deeowen: Salman Rushdie's Nightmarish Visions of a Postmodern Metropolis." 1-18
Tara Brabazon. "Mobile Learning: The iPodification of Universities." 19-30
Chung Chin-Yi. "Hyperreality, the Question of Agency, and the Phenomenon of Reality Television." 31-48
Danny Dawson . "The Witch: Subversive, Heretic or Scapegoat?" 49-70
Owen Elmore. "Apophasis, Aletheia: William Faulkner's The Hamlet." 71-83
Matt Ferrence. "Home Sweet Roadhouse." 84-89
Karen Heise. "The Rhetoric of Love." 90-106
Robert Hull. "Nietzsche's Jesus" 107-115
Christopher Kelen. "Lao Tzu at the Border." 116-129
Christopher Kelen. "Playing with the Dao De Jing: Poems and Pictures." 130-142
Anton Karl Kozlovic. Christian Communication in Popular Cinema: Cross Imagery, Cruciform Poses and Pieta Stances." 143-165
Hatim Mahamid. "Franks' Effect on Islamic Spirit, Religious and Cultural Characters in Medieval Syria." 166-183
Olukoya Ogen. "The Agricultural Sector and Nigerias Development: Comparative Perspectives from the Brazilian Agro-Industrial Economy, 1960-1995." 184-194
Federico Sabatini. "A Long Term Voyage." 195-197
Jordan Sanderson. "As If: The Construction of a Practical Fiction in D. H. Lawrences The Rainbow." 198-217
Rotimi Taiwo. "Language, Ideology and Power Relations in Nigerian Newspaper Headlines." 218-245
Stephen Gennaro. "Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?" 246-275
Jendele Hungbo. "Credible News Measures: A Medium's Integrity." 276-284
Babak Rahimi. "Iran: the 2006 Elections and the Making of an Authoritarian Democracy." 285-290
NEBULA 3.4, December 2006/January 2007
One can never adequately describe the sensation that prevails when an insight is being discovered, shared, exchanged, needless to say it is a sensation belonging to a higher nature, as Emerson might have said. As I was going through the final content of this issue I often felt captivated by the ideas and arguments advanced below, to the extent that some of them continue to haunt my mind. Whether it was Keramati's giant of a hypothesis in which oil reserves around the world veritably become a means of studying modern military histories, or the haunting analysis of Steele's Abu Ghraib prison guards, or the utterly confusing nature of time travel that Gendler presents ... In every contribution there was a new world to be explored; in Wright's article it was a case of reverse mimesis, while Cootey's first person narrator writes with a forceful vision, almost a delirium, in which Conrad's Heart of Darkness communicates beyond the narrative, in a meta narrative unfolding in the reader's mind. From Adesoji we learn that not all the world's national media invariably becomes an accomplice with the governments of those nations, that sometimes the media, in a post-globalisation world, can act as a powerful force in achieving good instead of hindering it. Rebecca Beirne's contribution discusses how the media can present images that are contradictory to the revolutionary rhetoric they imply -- how on the one hand a narrative that seeks to de-normalize and de-marginalize, can still unwittingly enforce prevalent and misleading discourses. In Moses Ayeomoni's contribution we learn about the use of English - the mother of all colonial languages - among Yoruba-speaking Nigerians. So here it is, the last issue of 2006, and the close to a third wonderful year of Nebula. See you soon in 2007 with issue 4.1. Thank you to all the contributors and the readers for their endless encouragement and support.
Samar Habib
Editor
Contents:
Click HERE to read about this issue's contributors and their work.
Rebecca Beirne. Fashioning The L Word." 1-37
Abimbola O. Adesoji. Globalization of the media and the Challenges of Democratisation in Nigeria. 38-50
Habiba Hadziavdic. "Images of Gypsies, a German Case: Gilad Margalit." 51-61
Warren Steele. Strange Fruit: American Culture and the Remaking of Iraqi Males at Abu Ghraib. 62-74
Mary Ellen Wright. Adrian Hall's Adaptations of In the Belly of the Beast. 75-88
Yashar Keramati. The Odd Couple: Iran and Venezuela's Union Through anti-U.S. Imperialism and Oil. 89-99
Yashar Keramati. One Theocrats Puppet Democracy, One Nation's Democratic Deprivation. 100-110
Jason Cootey. Ive Looked Deep into the Darkness. 111-141
Jason Gendler. Primer : The Perils and Paradoxes of Restricted Time Travel Narration. 142-160
Moses Omoniyi Ayeomoni. Language Use in a Yoruba Speech Community. 161-172
Nebula3.2-3.3, September 2006
It is with the utmost pleasure that I present to you this double issue of Nebula. We have had considerable difficulty in ordering the table of contents below -- because we have thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated each and every contribution.
Theodoros Mitsios, Editor.
Contents
Click HERE to read about this issue's contributors and their work.
Hatim Mahamid. Ismaili Dawa and Politics in Fatimid Egypt. 1-17
Shaun Randol. What Verdict Would a Buddhist Juror Render in the Zacarias Moussaoui Case? 18-24
Ayse Naz Bulamur. Cry Babies Challenging the Feminist Myths. 25-45
Steph Ceraso. Swinging Through Spheres: Jazz, Gender, and Mobility. 46-54
Guido Monte. Cosmopolitan multilingualism. 55-58
Justin Feng. Messianic Politics. 59-67
Ahmad M.S. Abu Baker. Rethinking Identity: The Coloniser in E. M. Forsters A Passage to India. 68-85
Sophie Croisy. Re-imagining Healing after Trauma: Leslie Marmon Silko and Judith Butler Writing against the War of Cultures. 86-113
Guido Monte. AHA* n.3: gwyrlen (garland) 114
Guido Monte. Journey to the dream two doors
and verses of Petronius. 115-116
Thomas Aiello. Mayflower. 117-124
Debi Withers. Kate Bush: Performing and Creating Queer Subjectivities on Lionheart. 125-141
Cathryn Molloy. The Patron Saint of Broken Glass. 142-157
Semra Somersan. Expostulations Concerning the Unity of the Self: Double Consciousness, Dual Perspective and Why Bother with all that? 158-178
Reyhan Atasü Topçuoğlu. Intellectuals: a Story from Enlightenment to the
Modern World. 179-187
BioDun J. Ogundayo. Polyphony in Miguel Barnet's Biografía de un cimarrón. 189-204
Zaid N. Mahir. In the Light of Scarrys On Beauty and Being Just: Reading a Post-Modern Iraqi Painting into Perspective. 205-219
Kimberly Eaton. Deconstructing the Narrative: Language, Genre, and Experience in Erasure. 220-232
Andrew Ockrim. Bet you didnt know your PC could be a Zombie. 233-239
Nebula 3.1, April 2006
Editor's Note
Click HERE to read about our contributors and their work i-iv.
Mary Lyn Broe. "Xtreme Makeover For Academics" 1.
Rodney Sharkey. "'This is my Body; Take this all of you and have some fun with it!?' Reading Rock DJ?" 2-18.
Grayson Cooke. "Human - 1 / Cyborg - 0: A Personal History of a Human-Machine Relation" 19-30.
Joshua Suddath. "Petals in the sand" 31-44.
Teresa Jones. "Mam'zell Boy-Scout" 45-64.
Maria Cristina Nisco. "Dark Histories, Bright Revisions: Writing the Black Female Body" 65-72.
Jesse Zanavich. "An Analysis of the Opium Situation in Afghanistan" 73-80.
Nicole McNamara. "Uprising" and "Scars and Strings" 81-84.
John Parras. "Poetic Prose and Imperialism: The Ideology of Form in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness" 85-102.
Michael Angelo Tata. "Warholian Machinehood" 103-121.
Kathy Hughes. "Incest and Innocence: Janey's Youth in Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School" 122-13.
Guido Monte. "Interior Mind" 131.
Samirah Alkasim. "Tracing an Archeology of Experimental Video in Cairo" 132-152.
Nicolas Mansito III. "Bridging the Gap Between the Scholar and Society" 153-172.
Nebula 2.4, December 2005
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Anna Notaro. Imagining the Cybernetic City: The Venus Project. 1-20
Emily Anderson. Queer Like La Virgen: Catholicism and Lesbian Sexuality in Carla Trujillos What Night Brings. 21-33
Geoff Berry. Mythopoeica Today. 34-42
Paul Ugor. The Developing Underdevelopment: Democracy, New Political Elites and the emergence of Mountain Tourism in Nigeria. 43-70
Laura Madeline Wiseman. Out with the Light
71-84
Blake G. Hobby.Translating Music and Supplanting Tradition: Reading, Listening and Interpreting in Tristan. 85-105
Ryan McIlhenny. Deliver us from Kant: Rereading Hegels Science of Logic in a Post-Kantian World. 106-114
Eva Kuttenberg. Body Shop Catalogue. 115-116
Rotimi Taiwo. "Forms and Functions of Interrogation in Charismatic Christian Pulpit Discourse." 117-131
Will Harris. Pauper at His Feet. 132
Carra Hood. "After the Leeves Breached." 133-135
Nebula 2.3, September 2005
Editor's Note.
Click HERE to read about this issues contributors and their work. i-v
Christopher Kelen. His Masterpiece, Our Haunting: Banjo Patersons Nation- Making Artefact. 1-17
Benjamin Carson. Darkness Beyond the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf, Charles Baudelaire, and Literary Modernism. 18-33
Saddik Gohar. Frontiers of Violence and Fear: A Study of Native American and Palestinian Intifada Poetry. 34-69
Chineze J. Onyejekwe. The Internet and the Commercialization of Sex: A Gender Perspective. 70-81
Alan Clinton. Eyes Without a Face: Ramَn à Clef. 82-89
Kendal Smith. The Ethnocentricity of Democracy, Capitalism, and Christianity. 90-97
David Carithers. 'Come on and Rise Up:' Springsteens Experiential Art after 9/11. 98-117
Elisabetta Marino. Beyond Ethnicity: An Interview with Theresa Maggio. 118-125
Adam King. Dead Souls. 126-129
Jennifer Thompson. Target Greatland. 130-132
Bill Stobb. 092804. 133
Moses Omoniyi Ayeomoni. A LinguisticStylistic Investigation of the Language of the Nigerian Political
Elite. 134-150
David Carithers. "Time's Direction." 151
NEBULA 2.2, June 2005
Editor's Note.
Note on Contributors and their work. i-iii
Babak Rahimi. Ishraqat, Part IV: Crossing over the Wall: A View of US-Iran Relations from the Former US Embassy in Tehran. 1-20
Matthew Abraham. Tracing the Discourse of Defiance: Remembering Edward W. Said through the Resistance of the Palestinian Intifada. 21-32
Dilek Inan. Public Consciousness Beyond Theatrical Space: Harold Pinter Interrogates Borders and Boundaries. 33-57
Kane X. Faucher. Maos Dialectical Materialism as an Individualism: Theory and Practice. 58-66
Irene Marques. Changing the universe ... 67-68
John McGowan-Hartmann. King Kong vs. Rambo: A Cautionary Tale (again). 69-75
Michael Angelo Tata. Andy Warhol: When Junkies Ruled the World. 76-112
Helga Tawil. Coming Into Being and Flowing Into Exile: History and Trends in Palestinian Film-Making. 113-140
Stephanie Watson. The Importance of the Pedagogy Process. 141-152
NEBULA 2.1, March 2005
Editor's Note.
Note on contributors and their work. i-v
M. Ikraam Abdu-Noor. Sunset in the Gardens of al-Andalus. 1-11
Nejmeh Khalil-Habib. Neehal. 12-21
Najwa Saad. The Bigger Picture: Commentary on a Documentary in the Making. 22-24
Terri Beth Miller. It was so it was not so: The Clash of Language in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. 25-46
Caroline Law. Development and Nationalism: An Analytical Model on Economic Growth to Social Preference and Party System. 47-67
Nicholas Packwood. 23 Maxims for Anatomy. 68-72
Bruce Isaacs. The Land and Nightfall
73
Nicholas Packwood. Post Card to Gilles Deleuze (mailed two weeks before his death). 74
Wendy Galgan. Return to Nevèrÿon: A Derridian-esque Meditation. 75-85
Laura Madeline Wiseman. Carnivalesque and Bifurcated Labels: Writing the Tale. 86-96
Corinne Lhermitte. A Jakobsonian Approach to Film Adaptations of Hugos Les Misérables. 97-107
Andrew Ockrim. Information Security What you need to know. 108-122
Karen Kachra. Dwelling as a Border. 123-132
Katerina Baitinger. Platos Women: Postmodern Pitfalls. 133-141
Nebula 1.3, Dec. 04/Jan. 2005:
Note on Contributors and their work.......i-v
Nils Rosemann. "The Privatization of Human Rights Violations: Business Impunity or Corporate Responsibility? The Case of Human Rights Abuses and Torture in Iraq." 1-28
Semra Somersan. "How to Avoid the Global Monster of the North: Affirmative Action for the New Global Age." 29-39
John Jefferson. Toward Laws in History: Carl G. Hempel and the Evidence Dilemma. ....40-58
Babak Rahimi. Ishraqat, Part III: Towards a New US Foreign Policy in the Middle East? 59-66
Tangirala Sri RamaChandra Murthy. Going Back To Metaphysics In The Attic. 67-78
Matthew O. Cleveland. Criminal or Revolutionary? Determining the Ethical Character of Emergent Terror. 79-90
John Hyland. An Extended Essay on the Use of the Gesture in Gertrude Steins Tender Buttons and Paul Klees Architecture Red-Green (yellow-purple gradations). 91-134
Ron Large.The Early Years 1944-1951: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Search for True Religion. 135-158
Tom OConnor. Cinematic Soul. 159
Tom OConnor. Nietzsches Mother. 160
Tom OConnor. Picassos Checks. 161
Tom OConnor. Houdini. 162
Russell Richards. Generative Art: Music Generation, Digital Art Production and Nebula. 163 -178
Courtney Thomas. History as Moral Commentary: Ideology and the Ethical Responsibilities of Remembrance. 179-196
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