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the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 1 Editorial Advisory Board the quint volume twelve issue two Moshen Ashtiany, Columbia University an interdisciplinary quarterly from Brenda Austin-Smith, University of Manitoba Keith Batterbe. University of Turku the north Donald Beecher, Carleton University Melanie Belmore, University College of the North ISSN 1920-1028 Gerald Bowler, Independent Scholar editor Robert Budde, University Northern British Columbia Sue Matheson John Butler, Independent Scholar film review editor David Carpenter, Professor Emeritus, University of Saskatchewan Antonio Sanna Terrence Craig, Mount Allison University the quint welcomes submissions. See our guidelines Lynn Echevarria, Yukon College or contact us at: Erwin Erdhardt, III, University of Cincinnati the quint Peter Falconer, University of Bristol University College of the North P.O. Box 3000 Peter Geller, University of the Fraser Valley The Pas, Manitoba Susan Gold, University of Windsor Canada R9A 1K7 Peter Gordon, Independent Scholar We cannot be held responsible for unsolicited Jim Gough, Athabasca University material John George Hansen, University of Saskatchewan Richard Harris, University of Saskatchewan Stella Hockenhull, University of Wolverhampton Didi Hutchins, University of Alaska (Anchorage) Deborah Lynn Kitchen Døderlein, University of Oslo production Ying Kong, University College of the North Sue Matheson cover photo: Rebecca Matheson Martin Kuester, University of Marburg A quarterly journal, the quint is housed by the Faculty of Arts, Business and Science at the University Ronald Marken, Professor Emeritus, University of Saskatchewan of the North. The encouragement and support of this project by the Vice President Academic of the Camille McCutcheon, University of South Carolina Upstate University College of the North is deeply appreciated. Lorraine Meyer, Brandon University Copyright 2020© the quint for the contributors. No part of this publication may be reproduced. 2 Vol. 12.2 (March 2020) the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 3 Ray Merlock, University of South Carolina Upstate Antonia Mills, Professor Emeritus, University of Northern British Columbia contents Ikuko Mizunoe, Professor Emeritus, Kyoritsu Women’s University Avis Mysyk, Cape Breton University Hisam Nakamura, Tenri University Heard It Through The Snake Vine by Rebecca Matheson..........................................8 Andrew Patrick Nelson, University of Montana EDITORIAL...........................................................................................................9 Julie Pelletier, University of Winnipeg Vincent Pitturo, Denver University UFO Crash by Rebecca Matheson...........................................................................11 Frances Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton Christian Riegel, University of Regina Spiritual Suppositions: A Comparative Examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Steve Roe, Northern Lights College “Christabel,” Lord Byron’s “Manfred,” and John Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes” by Dan Smith, University College of the North Andrew Urie..........................................................................................................12 Robert Spindler, University of Innsbruck Knot Yours by Rebecca Matheson..........................................................................31 Nicholas Tyrras, Independent Scholar Darrell Varga, NSCAD We Have Been Quiet for Too Long: Contesting Female Disempowerment in Adaze Gene Walz, University of Manitoba by Osakue Stevenson Omoera...............................................................................32 Robin Waugh, Wilfred Laurier University Mossy Business by Rebecca Matheson...................................................................64 David Williams, University of Manitoba Spooky Stories at a Distance: Gender in Katherine Mansfield’s Quantum Worlds by Nadia Konstantini............................................................................................65 Fungal Rose by Rebecca Matheson........................................................................81 Good Morning America by Joseph R. DeMare.....................................................82 Texture #1 by Rebecca Matheson.........................................................................104 From Rural to Urban Community: Historicizing Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Initiatives and the Transformation of Ikorodu Metropolis, Lagos, 1894-1999 by Friday Aworawo...................................................................................................105 4 Vol. 12.2 (March 2020) the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 5 Quarantined by Rebecca Matheson.....................................................................132 CONTRIBUTORS.............................................................................................219 Red River Raven by Tyler Turcotte......................................................................133 Cockle Shells by Rebecca Matheson....................................................................225 Hieroglyphs by Rebecca Matheson......................................................................136 SUBMISSION....................................................................................................226 Father and Son by Xiaowei Liang.......................................................................137 Texture #2 by Rebecca Matheson........................................................................148 GUIDELINES....................................................................................................226 CALL FOR PAPERS...........................................................................................226 A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis of Some Idiomatic Expressions in the Igbo Language by Ogbonna Anyanwu and Eunice Osuagwu...........................................................149 Scallops Anyone? by Rebecca Matheson..............................................................171 Diwomaodun—The Sin of Being a Mixed Race by Ying Kong............................172 Texture #3 by Rebecca Matheson.........................................................................188 FILM REVIEW: The Cotton Club (1984): From a Time When Black Lives Did Not Matter (Much) by Etienne Boumans...................................................................189 Texture #4 by Rebecca Matheson.........................................................................196 FILM REVIEW: The Hollow Christ, His Brittle Glory, and His Sour Cross: The Hollow Crown’s Representation of Shakespeare’s Richard of Bordeaux as a Counterfeit of Christ by Josh Commander.............................................................................197 Minimal Impact by Rebecca Matheson................................................................210 FILM REVIEW: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice by Marci Mazzarotto....211 Texture #6 by Rebecca Matheson..........................................................................218 6 Vol. 12.2 (March 2020) the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 7 Heard It Through The Sanke Vine Rebecca Matheson Vine Rebecca The Sanke It Through Heard EDITORIAL March 2020: COVID-19. Self-isolation as the seasons turn, and warmer weather begins. This, the quint's forty ninthissue, begins with Andrew Urie's "Spiritual Suppositions: A Comparative Examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 'Christabel,' Lord Byron’s 'Manfred,' and John Keats’s 'The Eve of St. Agnes'" which considers the invocation of supernatural elements in these poems which warn against succumbing to solipsism and express longing for a guiding spirituality. Osakue Stevenson Omoera's fascinating discussion of female disempowerment in the Benin area of Nigeria in "We Have Been Quiet for Too Long: Contesting Female Disempowerment in Adaze" follows, using Mabel Evwierhoma’s notion of African feminism, which emphasises the complementarity of female and male for human progress to examine patriarchal tropes and levels of female disempowerment in a Benin language video-film. Following Albert Einstein’s famous expression, Nadia Konstantini, "Spooky Stories at a Distance: Gender in Katherine Mansfield’s Quantum Worlds," reveals ‘spooky actions at a distance’ in Mansfield’s narratives about gender, particularly her fictional re/presentations of wo/men in time and space, and applies quantum theory to Mansfield’s writing. Next, in "From Rural to Urban Community: Historicizing Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Initiatives and the Transformation of Ikorodu Metropolis, Lagos, 1894-1999," Friday Aworawo considers Ikoradu and charts its urban transformation in Lagos' narrative. Then, Ogbonna Anyanwu and Eunice Osuagwu's "A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis of Some Idiomatic Expressions in the Igbo Language" delineates how Igbo idiomatic expressions are dependent upon situations, topics, or activities reflected in their speakers' 8 Vol. 12.2 (March 2020) the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 9 attitudes toward the persons or events denoted and the social relationships between Matheson Rebecca Crash UFO the participants in a communication exchange. Following, Etienne Boumans' film review, “The Cotton Club (1984): From a Time When Black Lives Did Not Matter (Much)” considers how whitewashing produced a box office failure that refrained from paying tribute to entertainers of the African diaspora. Josh Commander's "The Hollow Christ, His Brittle Glory, and His Sour Cross: The Hollow Crown’sRepresentation