September 2005 VOL.2 | ISSUE 3 Nebula ISSN-1449 7751 A JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARSHIP DEAD SOULS TARGET TIME'S GREATLAND DIRECTION Adam King Jennifer David Carithers Thompson Page 105 Page 108 Page 127 Nebula 2.3, September 2005 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 2.3, September 2005 Content i Note on contributors 111 092804 Bill Stobb 1 His Masterpiece, Our Haunting: Banjo Paterson’s Nation- Making Artefact. 112 A Linguistic-Stylistic Investigation of the Christopher Kelen Language of the Nigerian Political Elite. Moses Omoniyi Ayeomoni 15 Darkness Beyond the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf, Charles Baudelaire, and 127 Time’s Direction… Literary Modernism. David Carithers Benjamin D. Carson 29 Frontiers of Violence and Fear: A Study of Native American and Palestinian Intifada Poetry. Saddik M. Gohar 59 The Internet and the Commercialization of Sex: A Gender Perspective. Chineze J. Onyejekwe 67 Eyes Without a Face: Ramón à Clef. Alan Clinton 74 The Ethnocentricity of Democracy, Capitalism, and Christianity. Kendal Smith 81 “Come on and Rise Up:” Springsteen’s Experiential Art after 9/11. David Carithers 99 Beyond Ethnicity: An Interview with Theresa Maggio. Elisabetta Marino 105 Dead Souls… Adam King 108 Target Greatland… Jennifer Thompson Nebula 2.3, September 2005 Note on contributors Moses Omoniyi Ayeomoni Barbara: ABC-Clio Press, 2004). David has con- tributed two articles of work to Nebula 2.3. The Moses Omoniyi Ayeomoni received his Masters first is a short conversational poem reminiscent of degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and the informality of contemporary American poetry, has recently completed his doctoral thesis at the whilst the second contribution is a lengthier piece University of Ibadan (also in Nigeria). His arti- taking us into the world of his doctoral disser- cle “Pragma-stylistics analysis of General Ironsi’s tation. ‘Come on and Rise Up’: Springsteen’s maiden speech” is forthcoming in the Journal Experiential Art After 9/11 delivers a close of Language and Linguistics. His main research reading of Bruce Springsteen’s musical and lyr- interests involve linguistic and stylistic analysis ical responses to the World Trade Centre attacks, of political speech and the politics of language in whilst registering Springsteen’s interaction with a general. Moses is presently acting as lecturer at mass cultural reaction to the event. the Department of English at Obafemi Awolow University in Ile-Ife (Nigeria). In his contribu- tion to Nebula Moses explores the rhetoric of various Nigerian politicians as they engage in Benjamin D. Carson several modes of persuasion and “crowd control.” Written in Nigerian English and interrogating var- Benjamin Carson received his MA in Critical ious political speeches delivered in this form, the Theory in 1999 and acquired his PhD in May article always returns to the sociopolitical contexts 2005 both from the University of Nebraska, relevant to the speeches and the continuing crisis where he has acted as Teaching Assistant for of government in Nigeria. six consecutive years. Benjamin’s forthcoming publications include entries in the Encyclopedia of Native American Authors and The Feminist Encyclopedia of African American Literature. He David Carithers has already published work on Edith Wharton in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal After receiving a Masters in English at Western (32: 2003), whilst an article on Gilles Deleuze Carolina University for “Thomas Pynchon’s The and Felix Guattari was featured in Rhizomes (7: Crying of Lot 49: The Novel as Open Discourse” 2003). Benjamin’s article on “Flannery O’Connor, David Carithers completed his PhD in 2004 at the Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the Theologico- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His Political Implications of 9/11” was published thesis explored artistic responses to the attacks of by the Online Journal of Education, Media and September 11, 2001, by selected writers and the Health. His research interests include African, parallels between such responses and “Romantic/ Native, Asian and twentieth-century American Pragmatic Rhetoric” (a term he uses to describe Literatures, as well as an interest in women’s the combined philosophies of the American studies, Chicana/o Literature and Critical Theory. Romantics and the American Pragmatists of the Adding to these interests and wide array of pub- nineteenth century). He has recently published an lications on variant topics, Carson’s contribution article on “Malcom X.” in Men and Masculinities: to Nebula comes in the (unexpected) form of A Cultural and Historical Encyclopedia (Santa the defense of Virginia Woolf’s modernism. In Note on Contributors i Nebula 2.3, September 2005 his article Darkness Beyond the Lighthouse… Saddik Gohar Benjamin revisits the site at which modernism began to pale and postmodernism began to be Saddik Gohar received his PhD and Masters ushered in as the new ruler of literary movement. in English Literature and Criticism from the University of Pennsylvannia in Indiana (USA). He received his first BA in English language from Ain Shams University in Cairo University and Alan Ramón Clinton another BA in English literature from Mansora University in Egypt. His “The Political Poetry Alan Ramón Clinton Received his Masters in of Le Roi Jones and Mdhafa AlNawwab: A English at the University of Georgia in 1996, Comparative Perspective” is forthcoming in the studying under Hugh Kenner, Margaret Dickie, fall volume of the Digest of Middle East Studies and Antony Shuttleworth. Under their tutelage (Wisconsin University). His “Protest and Revolt: Alan fostered an interest in modernist literature Afro-American and Arab Poets in Dialogue” and its political possibilities. In May 2002, he was published in Creativity in Exile (New York: received his PhD in Literature at the University Rodopi, 2004). Saddik is interested in translation of Florida where he focused on the French avant- and has worked as a part-time translator for a con- garde tradition: Mallarmé, Dadaism, Surrealism, siderable period of time. In his contribution to the Situationists, and the Oulipo. Alan has recently Nebula 2.3 Saddik provides a close comparative published creative work in Hunger Magazine, reading between Native American and Palestinian Pacific Review, Art, Portland Review, First poetry, exploring narratives of dispossession, Offense, Absinthe Literary Review, and No Exit. nostalgia and defiance which are closely linked Lee Ballentine of Ocean View Books has recently to similar historical genealogies of invasion and published his long poem “Skeleton Key to the destruction. Wilderness,” whilst his scholarly monograph Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics was published with Peter Lang in 2004. Alan currently teaches writing at Christopher Kelen Northeastern University in Boston, whose English Department, he tells us, is a standard bearer of aca- Christopher Kelen is a well known Australian demic freedom. In his ficto-critical contribution to poet whose works have been widely published Nebula Clinton combines the methodology of crit- and broadcast since the mid seventies. The Oxford ical and theoretical analysis with the ease and the Companion to Australian Literature describes creativity allowed by imaginative extrapolation, Kelen’s work as “typically innovative and intel- leaving us with a set of characters, situations and lectually sharp.” Kelen holds degrees in literature institutions that are imagined, but which uncom- and linguistics from the University of Sydney fortably possess the quality of the hyper-real. and a doctorate on the teaching of the writing process from the University of Western