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the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 1 contents the quint volume five issue one EDITORIAL an interdisciplinary quarterly from The Adjunct Crisis in Humanities: Exposing Higher Education’s Dirty Little Secret by Natalie M. Dorfeld......................................................................................................................................7 the north Love by Christopher Moylan....................................................................................................25 advisory board The Pedagogy of Indigenous Restorative Justiceby John George Hansen & Rose Antsan- en............................................................................................................................................29 Dr. Keith Batterbe Three Curses of Manby Steven N. Wingate..............................................................................41 University of Turku Angel of Silence by Kristjana Gunnars.....................................................................................42 Dr. Lynn Ecchevarria Charity Girls: The Northern Manitoba(n )Response to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre by Carolyn Yukon College Creed.......................................................................................................................................43 the quint welcomes submissions. See our guidelines Pat by Christopher Moylan.....................................................................................................53 Dr. Susan Gold or contact us at: University of Windsor Garden of Tangier by Kristjana Gunnars.................................................................................56 the quint The Mutilation of Memory, History, and Body in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Fiveby Dr. Didi Hutchens University College of the North Karima Arif.............................................................................................................................57 University of Alaska (Anchorage) P.O. Box 3000 The Pas, Manitoba Shadows and Maps by Steven N. Wingate................................................................................72 Dr. Kathryn McNaughton Canada R9A 1K7 University College of the North Detail from Garden of Tangier by Kristjana Gunnars..............................................................73 We cannot be held responsible for unsolicited This Storm is What We Call Progress: Whitman, Kusher and Transnational Crisis by Ross K. material Tangedal..................................................................................................................................74 editors Brahmans Beneath The Skin by Steven N. Wingate.................................................................89 John Butler Silk Road by Kristjana Gunnars................................................................................................90 Sue Matheson Reading Shame : A History of Context by CarolynOwenby.....................................................91 Warmth in Hidden Places by Steven N. Wingate.....................................................................110 production Sue Matheson cover photo: Sue Matheson Detail from Silk Road by Kristjana Gunnars............................................................................111 Fantasy, Memory, and the Unimaginable in Don De Lillio’s Falling Man by Ahmad Gashmari..112 A quarterly journal, the quint is housed in and produced by the Humanities Area of Faculty of Arts Occupy the Air by Christopher Moylan.................................................................................125 and Science at the University of the North. The encouragement and support of this project by the Requiem for a Country by Kristjana Gunnars........................................................................128 Vice President of the University College of the North is deeply appreciated. Detail from Requiem for a Country by Kristjana Gunnars......................................................129 Copyright 2012 © the quint for the contributors. No part of this publication may be reproduced. 2 Vol. 5.1 ( December 2012) the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 3 more contents EDITORIAL BOOK REVIEWS erry Christmas from the quint. Can you hear the sleighbells are ringing in the first For those who wonder if dogs can fly by John Butler.............................................................130 issue of our fifth volume? Still grounded in the North, our quarterly is now five years old and growing rapidly. National and international writers and readers have An informative and interesting object lessons from the master writer by Gary A. Kozak.......132 joined Mthe quint, this issue’s contingent making it one of the hardest hitting to date. Fall may have dis- Weak argument for Chinese first on Cape Breton by Gary A. Kozak.....................................135 appeared under the harsh cover of our Northern winter but the North’s vital interests in regional and global matters have not. An eclective stocking of Christmas reading, arresting articles, stunning poet- Detail from The Lightness of the Palms by Kristjana Gunnars................................................138 ry, splendid visual art and useful reviews, this quint is for readers looking forward to curling up beside The Lightness of the Palmsby Kristjana Gunnars....................................................................139 a warm woodstove or fireplace with a cup of something hot and preferably mulled. Showcasing ideas and art from Canada, the United States, and Tunisia, our seventeenth offering begins with a very controversial article by Natalie M. Dorfeld about the crisis affecting sessional lecturers in universities throughout the United States. and Canada. John George Hansen and Rose Antsanen’s thoughtful ex- amination of the pedagogy of Indigenous Restorative Justice, a specialty offered at the University Col- CONTRIBUTORS................................................................................................................140 lege of the North, and Carolyn Creed’s sensitive discussion of Northern Cree students’ responses to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre follow: both are well worth reading. Readers interested in science fiction SUBMISSION GUIDELINES...............................................................................................142 will not want to miss Karima Arif’s reading of memory, history and the body in Slaughterhouse-Five CALL FOR PAPERS...............................................................................................................142 (just about everyone’s favourite Kurt Vonnegut novel). Ross K. Tangedal’s thoughts on transnational crisis via Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millenium Approaches provide much food for thought. For readers of Salamn Rushdie, Carolyn Owenby proffers insight- ful analyses of Shame and Midnight’s Children. And last, but certainly not least, Ahmad Gashmari’s discussion of fantasy, memory and the unimaginatble in Falling Man is a fascinating comment on the cultural aftermath of 9/11 Of course, no quint would be complete without its creative complement. We are excited to be able to showcase, on the one hand, Christopher Moylan’s incredibly sensitive and versatile lyrics, and, on the other, Steven N. Wingate’s startlingly powerful blank verse. Then our visual offerings bring us back in a circuitous circumpolar fashion to the North: we are honoured to be able to display a selec- tion of paintings by Kristjana Gunnars. A gifted artist and scholar/poet, Kristjana hails from Iceland and has also lived in Canada and Norway. I should not keep you from this issue of the quint any longer. Here’s to good reading and a long, warm, and wonderful holiday season! We at the quint wish you and your loved ones a very happy Christmas together and all the best in 2013. the quint will be back in March with more offerings just in time for Easter. Sue Matheson Co-Editor 4 Vol. 5.1 ( December 2012) the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 5 THE ADJUNCT CRISIS IN HUMANITIES: EXPOSING HIGHER EDUCATION’S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET by Natalie M. Dorfeld According to McKerrow, Gronebeck, Ehninger, and Monore (2002), authors of Principles and Types of Public Speaking, every problem/solution investigation needs three key points. The first point, commonly referred to as the problem step, must make readers conscious of the situation and its potentially hazardous outcomes. The second point, the need step, addresses the need for action. The third and final point, otherwise known as the solution step, calls for specific measures, ones explicit almost to a fault, in order to resolve the problem. The situation in this article, as noted above, is the adjunct phenomenon in English teaching. Beginning as early as the 1960s, and gaining more attention in the late 1980s with the “Wyoming Conference Resolution,” part-timers have routinely been paid a fraction of full-timers’ salaries while teaching equivalent (and often greater) course loads. They have traveled hundreds of miles a week in order to make ends meet and subjected themselves to degrading job titles, such as “special lecturers, wage-section faculty, hourly faculty, short-term faculty, and emergency faculty,” only to be promised no sense of real job security from one semester to the next (Duncan, 1999, p. 6). Granted, many administrators view part-time faculty members as “fine wine at discount prices,” but their monetary value to any given institution is only one