NEBULA: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship ISSN-1449 7751

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-Maria’s 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, I’m 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 Miller’s 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 Yahp’s 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 Gulliver’s 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