{"title":"Certain Assistances: The Utilities of Speculative Fiction in Shaping the Future","authors":"D. Lawler","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"11 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88131348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mos.2021.a903588
Laurie Vickroy
Abstract:Svetlana Alexievich's text brings to light women veterans' testimonies of lingering World War II traumas that challenge militaristic discourses. This study analyzes how Alexievich helped them claim their testimonial voices and provoked them to reveal traumatic effects and to contextualize and organize their words into trauma narratives.
{"title":"\"It's More Terrible Not to Remember\": Alexievich and Women's War Literature","authors":"Laurie Vickroy","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.a903588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.a903588","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Svetlana Alexievich's text brings to light women veterans' testimonies of lingering World War II traumas that challenge militaristic discourses. This study analyzes how Alexievich helped them claim their testimonial voices and provoked them to reveal traumatic effects and to contextualize and organize their words into trauma narratives.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"65 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84030699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mos.2021.a903589
David W. Rutledge
Abstract:In Broke Heart Blues and elsewhere, Joyce Carol Oates explores the psychology of celebrity worship. The adulation of celebrity is one way in which an American audience reaches for something to believe in. Oates shows how the audience creates the myths and illusions that it chooses to worship.
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{"title":"Ten Songs that Came Up in Conversations with Rodney Graham","authors":"David Wisdom","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.a903592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.a903592","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>This discography was created by David Wisdom based on conversations with Rodney Graham. <i>Mosaic</i> is pleased to publish it here.</p>","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"133 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79707465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mos.2021.a903586
K. Hume
Abstract:
Tony Williams's Nutcase translates Grettir's Saga into a modern setting. Saga shame- and social media shame cultures differ, particularly in what gives life to life. I draw on Beowulf, Grettir's Saga, current criticisms of both, cultural theory, and other novels that build upon these earlier texts.
{"title":"The Differing Shame Cultures of Tony Williams's Nutcase and Grettir's Saga","authors":"K. Hume","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.a903586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.a903586","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Tony Williams's <i>Nutcase</i> translates <i>Grettir's Saga</i> into a modern setting. Saga shame- and social media shame cultures differ, particularly in what gives life to life. I draw on <i>Beowulf, Grettir's Saga</i>, current criticisms of both, cultural theory, and other novels that build upon these earlier texts.</p>","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"593 1","pages":"33 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74436034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mos.2021.a903590
David W. Rutledge
Abstract:In Broke Heart Blues and elsewhere, Joyce Carol Oates explores the psychology of celebrity worship. The adulation of celebrity is one way in which an American audience reaches for something to believe in. Oates shows how the audience creates the myths and illusions that it chooses to worship.
{"title":"\"We've Got to Believe Something\": Joyce Carol Oates and Celebrity","authors":"David W. Rutledge","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.a903590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.a903590","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Broke Heart Blues and elsewhere, Joyce Carol Oates explores the psychology of celebrity worship. The adulation of celebrity is one way in which an American audience reaches for something to believe in. Oates shows how the audience creates the myths and illusions that it chooses to worship.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"39 1","pages":"83 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73050603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mos.2021.a903587
Chu He
Abstract:This essay gives a traumatic reading of Maurya's passivity. Traumatized by her sons' deaths, Maurya develops PTSD symptoms including hyperarousal, intrusion, and constriction, and through keening she moves towards a recovery. Synge's deft use of symbols, repetition, and imagery to stage trauma makes Riders a precursor to later trauma plays.
{"title":"A Traumatic Reading of Maurya's Passivity in Synge's Riders to the Sea","authors":"Chu He","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.a903587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.a903587","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay gives a traumatic reading of Maurya's passivity. Traumatized by her sons' deaths, Maurya develops PTSD symptoms including hyperarousal, intrusion, and constriction, and through keening she moves towards a recovery. Synge's deft use of symbols, repetition, and imagery to stage trauma makes Riders a precursor to later trauma plays.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"49 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83218128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mos.2021.a903584
Daniel Mckay
Abstract:The Man from Beijing depicts ethnic Chinese workers on the US transcontinental railroad, a literary development that challenges the linguistic boundaries nominally associated with Asian American Studies. Of equal importance, I argue, is the way Mankell expands the cartography of Nordic Noir to encompass capitalism's old-new frontiers in China (PRC).
{"title":"Vengeance Unbound: Henning Mankell's The Man from Beijing","authors":"Daniel Mckay","doi":"10.1353/mos.2021.a903584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.a903584","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Man from Beijing depicts ethnic Chinese workers on the US transcontinental railroad, a literary development that challenges the linguistic boundaries nominally associated with Asian American Studies. Of equal importance, I argue, is the way Mankell expands the cartography of Nordic Noir to encompass capitalism's old-new frontiers in China (PRC).","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"101 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73070704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}