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SEPTEMBER 2007 ISSUE NO.3 VOL.4 NEBULA A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship THE RE-INVENTION OF THE GRAPHIC MEMOIR Lopamudra Basu | Page 1 CYBERSUBLIMITY AFTER THE ORGASMOTRON Michael Angelo Tata | Page 32 CYBORG ONTOLOGY IN "FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS" Tom Murphy | Page 225 Guest Editor OLUKOYA OGEN ISSN 1838-1472 Nebula 4.3, September 2007 The Nebula Editorial Board Dr. Samar Habib: Editor in Chief (Australia) Dr. Joseph Benjamin Afful, University of Cape Coast (Ghana) Dr. Senayon S. Alaoluw,University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) Dr. Samirah Alkasim, independent scholar (Egypt) Dr. Rebecca Beirne, The University of Newcastle (Australia) Dr. Nejmeh Khalil-Habib, The University of Sydney (Australia) Dr. Isaac Kamola, Dartmouth College (U.S.A) Garnet Kindervater, The University of Minnesota (U.S.A) Dr. Olukoya Ogen, Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria) Dr. Paul Ayodele Osifodunrin, University of Lagos (Nigeria) Dr. Babak Rahimi, University of California (San Diego, U.S.A) Dr. Michael Angelo Tata, City University of New York (U.S.A) The Nebula Advisory Board Dr. Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, The University of Puerto Rico Dr. Paul Allatson, The University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) Dr. Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State College (U.S.A) Dr. Murat Cemrek, Selcuk University (Turkey) Dr. Melissa Hardie, The University of Sydney (Australia) Dr. Samvel Jeshmaridian, The City University of New York (U.S.A) Dr. Christopher Kelen, The University of Macao (China) Dr. Kate Lilley, The University of Sydney (Australia) Dr. Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College of New York (U.S.A) Dr. Tracy Biga MacLean, Academic Director, Claremont Colleges (U.S.A) Dr. Wayne Pickard, a very independent scholar (Australia) Dr. Ruying Qi, The University of Western Sydney (Australia) Dr. Ruben Safrastyan, Armenian National Academy of Sciences (Armenia) Dr. Alberto Sandoval, Mount Holyoke College (U.S.A) Dr. Judith Snodgrass, The University of Western Sydney (Australia) Dr. Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University (U.S.A) Opinions expressed in articles published in Nebula reflect those of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the journal or its editorial or advisory board members. Nebula 4.3, September 2007 Content i Note on contributors 150 An Evaluation of Intensive English (Book I) as a Coursebook for English as Second 1 Crossing Cultures/ Crossing Genres: The Language in Nigeria. Re-invention of the Graphic Memoir in Sunday Adejimola Amuseghan and Persepolis and Persepolis 2. Akinrelere Lucy Olayinka Lopamudra Basu 170 There is No (such) Place Like Home: 15 The Holocaust World of Yechiel Fajner. Rhetoricizing Kansas after Oz. Dvir Abramovich Carra Hood 32 Rrose Sélavy, Barbarella, Madonna: 180 In Search of a Remedial Philosophy: A Cybersublimity after the Orgasmotron. Consecutive Study of Hafez and Goethe. Michael Angelo Tata Ismail Baroudy 52 A Syntactic and Semiotic Analysis of 212 Aspects of the Phono-Graphological Some Yoruba Sexist Proverbs in English Design in Soyinka’s ‘Faction.’ Translation: Need for Gender Balance. Ayo Ogunsiji A.A. Asiyanbola 225 Cyborg Ontology in Fear and Loathing in 66 Crossed Lines: The Creation of a Las Vegas On the Road to Consciousness: Multiform, Multiscreen Interactive Film The Red Shark, The White Whale & Sarah Atkinson Reading The Textual Body. Tom Murphy 87 New Technology and the Universal Service Obligation in Australia: Drifting 236 Sheffield is not Sexy. towards Exclusion? Stephen Mallinder Mike Kent 260 Mississippi: An Emerging Democracy 106 The Theme of ‘Futility’ in War Poetry Creating a Culture of Civic Participation Ahmad Abu Baker among Formerly Oppressed Peoples. Rickey L. Cole and Kimberly S. Adams 121 Academic Literacy and Communicative Skills in the Ghanaian University: A 269 Corruption of Language and Nigeria’s Proposal. Debased Value System Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful Adeyemi Adegoju 136 Into the Night-Time Economy: Work, Leisure, Urbanity and the Creative Industries. Tara Brabazon and Stephen Mallinder Nebula 4.3, September 2007 Note on contributors Dvir Abramovich of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the issues of race and gender in legislative bodies, in the Dr. Dvir Abramovich is the Jan Randa Senior U.S. and globally. She has presented academic Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies and papers on women and politics at the state, national Director of The University of Melbourne Centre and international levels. Her most recent publica- for Jewish History and Culture. He is the edi- tions include an article on women in sub-Saharan tor of the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, African politics which will appear in the fall 2007 Australia’s only professional journal devoted to edition of the International Journal of Diversity the field of Jewish studies. in Organisations, Communities and Nations, and an article on agenda setting behavior in three state legislatures in the United States which appeared in Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Ahmad Abu Baker Scholarship, Volume 4.2, June 2007 Assistant Prof. in English Lit. Dept. at Al al-Bayt University/Jordan since 2003. Doctorate in English and Comparative Literature (Murdoch University/ Yemi Adegoju Western Australia) obtained in 2002. Ph.D. Thesis: The ‘Other’, Self Discovery and Identity- A Dr Adeyemi Adegoju has a PhD in English from Comparative Study in Colonial and Post-colonial the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He specializes Literature. Publications: 1- “Rethinking Identity: in Stylistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and Mahmoud Darwish’s Poem ‘Tibaaq’ (Antithesis) Sociolinguistics. His research interest also covers – A Postcolonial Perspective” Accepted for pub- aspects of Popular Culture and African Studies. lication in Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal He has written a number of papers in these areas in due to appear in Fall 2007. 2- “Poems on ‘The both local and international publications, among Great War’: Sadness, Anger, Repression, Healing” which is the CODESRIA Book Series. At present, Accepted for publication in Interactions jour- Dr Adegoju teaches Stylistics, Discourse Analysis nal due to appear in May 2007.3- “Rethinking and Pragmatics in the Department of English, Identity: The Coloniser in E. M. Forster’s A Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Passage to India.” Nebula, Issue 3.2-3, September 2006, pp.68-85.4- “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as an Emblem of the Modern Writer’s Dilemma” Journal of Arts and Human Sciences, Lucy Akerele Vol. 57, July 2005, pp. 573-620 (2nd Author). Lucy Akerele is a post-graduate student of Departmnet of Arts Education, Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria. Kimberly S. Adams she had M Ed. (English Education) in 2005. she is currently on her P.hD Programme in the same Dr. Kimberly S. Adams is an Assistant Professor Departmnet. Her area of specialization is Applied of Political Science at East Stroudsburg University Linguistics. she has written several journal articles Note on Contributors i Nebula 4.3, September 2007 in National and International Journals Sarah Atkinson Sarah Atkinson is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Broadcast Media at the University of Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful Brighton having held previous media produc- tion lecturing posts at the University of Central Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful is currently Lancashire and the University of Salford. She is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the currently writing up her PhD into interactive nar- Witwatersrand in South Africa, having completed ratives, which is a practice based piece of research his doctoral studies at the National University of involving the creation of a multi-screen interactive Singapore. A lecturer at the University of Cape video narrative, which uses a telephone interface Coast, Ghana, prior to the commencement of his paradigm. Sarah’s key research interests are mul- doctoral studies, he has published in Journal of tisequential (cinematic and video) narratives, Multilingual and Multicultural Development, intuitive user response systems to such narratives Language and Intercultural Communication, and remixable and modifiable film. Her method- Across the Disciplines, Nordic Journal of ological approach and exploration is very much African Studies, and The International Journal practice based. of Language Society and Culture. His areas of interest include academic literacy/writing, (crit- ical) discourse analysis, disciplinary discourse/ variation, sociolinguistics, narrative inquiry, and Lopamudra Basu the interface between postgraduate pedagogy and academic writing. Lopamudra Basu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Stout. She grew up in Calcutta was educated at the University of Delhi Akinbola Asiyanbola in India. She completed her Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York. Her research Dr A.A. Asiyanbola’s areas of specialization interests include Postcolonial Literatures of South are Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Analysis Asia and Africa, the Contemporary Novel, and and English Grammar. He presently teaches Transnational Feminist Theory. Her articles and English Grammar and Linguistics courses at reviews have appeared in Social Text, SAMAR( the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection), University, IleIfe, Nigeria. He has published Re-Markings and Catamaran. She is currently in various journals and books both locally and co-editing an anthology of essays on the work