ISSN 1904-6022 www.otherness.dk/journal Otherness and Transgression in Fandom and Celebrity Studies Volume 6 · Number 1 · December 2018 Otherness and Representation Volume 6 · Number 2 · December 2018 Welcoming the interdisciplinary study of otherness and alterity, Otherness: Essays and Studies is an open-access, full-text, and peer-reviewed e-journal under the auspices of the Centre for Studies in Otherness. The journal publishes new scholarship primarily within the humanities and social sciences. ISSUE EDITORS Matthias Stephan, PhD GENERAL EDITOR Matthias Stephan, PhD Aarhus University, Denmark ASSOCIATE EDITORS Susan Yi Sencindiver, PhD Aarhus University, Denmark Dr. Maria Beville Limerick Institute of Technology © 2018 Otherness: Essays and Studies ISSN 1904-6022 Further information: www.otherness.dk/journal/ Otherness: Essays and Studies is an open-access, non-profit journal. All work associated with the journal by its editors, editorial assistants, editorial board, and referees is voluntary and without salary. The journal does not require any author fees nor payment for its publications. Cover photo by Christopher Thomsen, courtesy of the artist. Volume 6 · Number 1 · December 2018 CONTENTS Introduction 1 Matthias Stephan 1 Vulnerability and Trash: 11 Divisions within the Stucky Fandom Alen Ríos and Diego Rivera 2 The Other Woman: 39 Re-Authoring and Re-Othering Gendered Narratives Lucy I. Baker 3 Everyday, Bro?: 67 Authenticity and Performance Intersections in the Vlogs of Jake Paul Pernille Rosenlund and Susanne Lisberg Jørgensen 4 “We Must Learn to Speak to Each Other So That We Can Embrace from Afar: 93 Dodie Bellamy reading Kathy Acker, an account in words and clothes Andrea Aramburu Villavisencio Abstracts – Issue 6.1: Otherness and Transgression in Fandom and Celebrity Studies: 305 iii iv Volume 6 · Number 2 · December 2018 CONTENTS Introduction 1 Matthias Stephan 1 Defining the Mexican Other: 113 Insights from Interwar America and Postwar Canada Naomi Alisa Calnitsky 2 Palmyra and the radical Other: 139 On the politics of monument destruction in Syria Ella Mudie 3 Egypt in Western Popular Culture: 161 From Bram Stoker to The Jewel of the Nile Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka 4 They’re Just People, That’s All: 193 American Carnival, the Freakish Body and the Ecological Self in Daniel Knauf’s Carnivàle Helena Bacon 5 Othering the Outsider: 221 Monstering Abject Bodies in Wuthering Heights Adele Hannon 6 “A Man is Nothing without the Spice of the Devil in Him”: 243 Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester Navigate an Imperially-Inscribed Masculinity Rachel Willis 7 The Stranger and the Other: 259 Radical Alterity in Albert Camus’ The Stranger and Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation Hamza Karam Ally 8 Postcolonial Transformations: 281 Queering the Narrative in Hasan Namir’s God in Pink Sean Weaver Abstracts – Issue 6.2: Otherness and Representation: 306 v Volume 6 · Number 1 · December 2018 CONTRIBUTORS Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio holds a Master of Arts in Contemporary Literature, Culture and Theory from King’s College London, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Hispanic Literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, in Lima, Peru. She is currently doing her PhD at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. Her research aims to explore the interactions between disruptive kinships, affect and aesthetics in contemporary Latin American visual culture. Lucy I. Baker (orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-933X) recently received her doctorate from the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at Griffith University, where she teaches across fields of sociology, cultural and media studies. Her research focuses primarily on adaptations, gender, and fans; her work has been published or has been accepted for publication in journals including Continuum, Journal of Girlhood Studies, and The Journal of Fandom Studies. Her most recent publication is a book chapter entitled “Fans and Vampires at Home” in Letting the Wrong One In: Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture (eds. Baker, Green, and Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, Palgrave 2017). And, she is currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Refractory entitled, “Beyond Nostalgia: Discomfort and Difference in Stranger Things” (forthcoming 2018). Susanne Lisberg Jørgensen graduated from Aarhus University in 2018. She works primarily with online fan culture; especially in its intersections with feminism and asexuality studies. Alen Ríos is a social psychologist from the University of Chile, currently a Master student in the University of Edinburgh for Digital Sociology. Their graduate thesis focused on subjectivity construction in the online fandom of Stucky within Tumblr and AO3, and it was coauthored with Diego Rivera. Alen's research interests gravitate towards digital technologies interactions with subjectivities, the changes in practices and performativities, specially in groups or communities associated with fandom. Their Master dissertation delves into nonbinary subjectivities and their narratives in fandom. Diego Rivera was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1993. He is a social psychologist from the University of Chile, and at the time of writing, a Master vi student in the Digital Society programme. His graduate thesis, co-authored with Alen Ríos, focused on subjectivity construction in the online fandom of Stucky within Tumblr and AO3. Diego's research interests relate to the relationship between digital technologies and markets and the production of subjectivities, and the practices and knowledge associated with them. Diego’s Master dissertation focuses on Chilean Uber drivers. Pernille Rosenlund graduated from the English department of Aarhus University in 2018. Her research interests mainly lie within genre studies, particularly relating to film and other visual media. vii Volume 6 · Number 1 · December 2018 CONTRIBUTORS Hamza Karam Ally is a Ph.D. in Humanities at York University, Canada. His research concentrates on phenomenological alterity in nineteenth and twentieth century literature. He is interested as well in the phenomenology of the postcolonial encounter. He has forthcoming published work on Don DeLillo and the American novel after September 11. His current project explores the sacred and the liminal in American and South Asian literature, particularly the symbolic frontier in war and Partition novels. Helena Bacon completed a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2018 at the University of East Anglia, where she teaches on a range of modules that span writing fiction and poetry, surveying literary realism, and reading literature historically. Her research primarily focuses on American visual culture, the Western genre and gothic intersections and integrations – particularly regarding American frontier narratives. The creative component of her PhD was longlisted for the 2017 Mslexia First Novel award, and she has had poetry published in the MMU Creative Writing Journal, MUSE. She has extensive experience conducting Outreach work within schools in East Anglia, introducing pupils to different Humanities disciplines, and has published other scholarly articles and presented conference papers on contemporary art and film, histories and fictional depictions of American freak shows, nuclear fiction and Gothic Westerns. Naomi Alisa Calnitsky is an Independent Scholar and Researcher based in Winnipeg, Canada. She completed a PhD in History at Carleton University in 2017. Her forthcoming book, Seasonal Lives: Twenty-First Century Approaches (ANU E-Press, Pacific Lives Series) is the first to systematically compare contemporary seasonal labour migration programs in North America and the Pacific. Her primary research interests are in oral history, agricultural labour history, and Mexican transnational migration. Adele Hannon is a PhD student at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland. Her current field placement is in Mary Immaculate College as a departmental assistant in the Department of English Language and Literature. Her PhD thesis is entitled The Untold Story of the Monster: A Psychoanalytic Look at the Monster through the Anamorphic Lens. She co-organised, with PhD student Jade Dillon, the international conference ‘Villainous Victims: Redefining the viii Antihero from a Postmodern Perspective’ in 2018. Adele’s most recent publication is with the ‘British Fantasy Society Journal Issue 18’ entitled: ‘You Know Nothing Jon Snow: Locating the Feminine Voice of Maturity, Motherhood and Marriage in 21st Century Fantasy Fiction. She has a broad range of research interests in the fields of Gothic studies, the gendered body, monster theory, adaptation, popular culture, anamorphic perspective, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction. Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka has published widely in the areas of modernism, popular culture, film studies, Irish Studies, and drama studies. She is the author of the monographs The Postcolonial Traveller (2016) and Kate O’Brien and the Fiction of Identity (2011). Her research has been awarded the ‘Government of Ireland’ post-doctoral fellowship from the National University of Ireland, and the Irish Research Council for the Hummanities fellowship. Mentxaka has worked as lecturer in University College Dublin, and in Saint Patrick’s College at Dublin City University, and as educator in the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She is lecturer at American College Dublin. Ella Mudie is a writer and independent scholar with a PhD from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. 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