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Exclamat!On: an Interdisciplinary Journal BORDERS, BOUNDARIES, and MARGINS Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal BORDERS, BOUNDARIES, AND MARGINS Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal Borders, Boundaries and Margins IV First published in 2020 by Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal University of Exeter Department of English The Queen's Drive Exeter EX4 4QH Available on: http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/research/publications/exclamation Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2020 Copyright in the individual contributions is retained by the authors. Submissions to the journal are welcome and should be addressed to the editors ([email protected]). All submissions in this publication are subject to double blind peer-review. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the editors. Printed by University of Exeter Students’ Guild Print Room. Front cover image: Eleanor Shipton 2017 ISSN 2515-0332 ii Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal Borders, Boundaries and Margins IV EDITORIAL BOARD EDITORS Ash Gannicott Joe Holloway (PhD English) (PhD English) University of Exeter University of Exeter [email protected] [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITORS Ada Cheong Sophie Smith (PhD English) (PhD English) [email protected] [email protected] Daniel Paul Marshall Elena Martin (MA English) (MA English) [email protected] [email protected] Vishal Ranjan Hannah Rudd (MA English) (MA Creative Writing) [email protected] [email protected] ASSISTANT COPYEDITOR Tess Allen (PhD Philosophy) University of Bristol [email protected] iii Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal Borders, Boundaries and Margins IV iv Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal Borders, Boundaries and Margins IV CONTENTS E d i t o r i a l vii L e v i t y 1 Antonela Pallini Zemin Geographic Borders, Structures of Feelings and 3 Raymond Williams: An Exploration of Borders within Williams’s People of the Black Mountains Amber Hancock C rossing Points: Domestic 1 7 Rachel Carney S o n g o f the Norfolk Longshoremen 2 2 J a n i c e L i n g l e y R E V I E W : Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World 34 Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (2019) Atlin Merrick ‘Only a memory to be avoided, locked away’: 35 The Intertextual Duplexity of Bertha Mason / Antoinette Cosway’s Marginalisation in J a n e E y r e a n d Wide Sargasso Sea Danny Lawson v Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal Borders, Boundaries and Margins IV ‘To be or not to be’: Possible Worlds, 48 Hypothetical Focalisation, and the Blurring of Boundaries between Reality and Fantasy in Ian McEwan’s N u t s h e l l . N a o m i A d a m A C r o s s - Cultural Dialogue on Chinese and 64 A n g l o - American Academia: An Interview with Professor Regenia Gagnier Professor Yanli Duan One or the other? Or one and another?: 7 1 Exploring Borders, Boundaries and Margins in Charles Causley’s poem ‘On the Border’ Mike Cooper Mourning the Present: Towards a 79 Quantum Elegy C l a i r e C o x A N e w L i f e 88 Tanya Banerjee Contributors 95 vi Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal Borders, Boundaries and Margins IV EDITORIAL Without a doubt, 2020 has been a challenging year for us all. Despite all the difficulties, it is testament to not only our fantastic editorial team, but to all our contributors and peer-reviewers that we have been able to complete volume 4 of Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal. The theme of this volume, ‘Borders, Boundaries and Margins’ is one that is incredibly topical under the current political and social climate, not only within the United Kingdom, but globally. As many of us resorted to working from home under lockdown restrictions, and social groups were restricted to social bubbles, the borders, boundaries and margins between us were never more apparent. The choice of ‘Borders, Boundaries and Margins’ as theme for this edition of the journal was one which we felt spoke to all aspects of English, Creative Writing and Film, as we live in an increasingly globalised yet divisive society. Politics are becoming increasingly more fractious as fake news spreads online, causing division and polarisation. Protests in Hong Kong are still ongoing. January 31st saw Great Britain and Gibraltar withdraw from the European Union. 16th of March saw Great Britain to go into lockdown and all social contact was immediately reduced. On May 25th, George Floyd was killed by police in Minnesota, leading to mass Black Lives Matter protests across America and the rest of the world. On the 2nd of Novemeber, Great Britain entered lockdown for the second time. The 3rd of November saw one of the most divisive elections in American history. Borders, boundaries and margins are not only physical and cartographical, but are often imaginary and ideological. These borders and divisions are not concrete and can instead be fluid, unstable, and these boundaries can be transgressed and broken. Through the material in this journal you will find work that engages with borders, boundaries and margins in many different ways – but at the crux of these articles and creative pieces there is always a liminal point which is being interrogated, explored, analysed or questioned. In order to facilitate the growth of the journal, this year our call for papers was disseminated to every University in the United Kingdom, and we welcomed many submissions from research and taught postgraduates. We were incredibly pleased that the amount of submissions we received this year was at its highest yet, and the work that constitutes this volume of the journal was the result of many lengthy discussions amongst the editorial team (over web conferencing software, of course). We were incredibly impressed with the calibre of all submissions that we received, and we hope that this can grow from year to year, and Exclamat!on can continue the maintain the high standards established by its founders, Teresa Sanders and Sarah-Jayne Unsworth back in volume 1, published in 2017. Unfortunately this year, we were unable to host a conference as we have done previously in June. However, the 2019 conference, which was on the theme ‘Borders, Boundaries, and Margins’ was a great success, and we are pleased that some of the conference speakers went on to submit papers for this edition. In initiating the theme a year in advance, and hosting the conference on the subject, vii Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal Borders, Boundaries and Margins IV we were able to seek out potential contributors to present their work, begin conversations, and create networks and connections across different disciplines, colleges, and universities. We are therefore proud to be playing our part in encouraging discussion, collaboration and intellectual development amongst not only the postgraduate community at Exeter, but the wider postgraduate community as a whole. We will – circumstances permitting – be hosting our annual conference in 2021. We could not have produced this volume without support. Our thanks and gratitude must first go out to our editorial team for all their hard work, from conducting the peer-review process, working with the authors, as well as proofreading and copyediting the submissions. On behalf of the journal I would also like to thank all of the internal and external peer reviewers for their enthusiastic and constructive feedback. We are grateful to the University of Exeter Alumni Award which generously supported the physical publication of this issue. Finally, I would like to thank Jim Milnes, Cathy Baker, Kim Mugford and Cat Rocks from the University of Exeter’s HASS PGR administrative team, for their unwavering enthusiasm and support for the journal. The production of this volume exemplifies the extent to which the journal has not only continued to grow in reputation and scope, but to which it has become a fully-fledged, nationally- recognised postgraduate journal. From my involvement with the journal from 2018, I am incredibly proud of what the journal has achieved and its ongoing growth from strength to strength. Whilst my tenure as Editor has now come to an end, I leave the journal in the very capable hands of Joe Holloway and Sophie Smith. Joe has worked as my Co-Editor for this issue, and Sophie served this year as Assistant Editor of English. I have all the confidence that Exclamat!on will continue to flourish and grow under the guidance of Joe and Sophie, and as they, in turn, pass the journal on to future generations of editors that Exclamat!on will continue to be a site of discussion, collaboration, and intellectual development for the postgraduates of the future. We will no doubt remember 2020 as the year in which borders, boundaries and margins were never more prevalent. But despite all the obstacles, challenges, and difficulties, this has been a year in which for many of us, our communities are closer than ever, the bonds between families and friends have strengthened, and the human spirit, insurmountable, has thrived. Ash Gannicott Editor viii Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal Borders, Boundaries and Margins IV Levity (Lingua Franca) Antonella Pallini Z e m i n The borders are clear cut, there is a territory in which I often wander erratically trying to find a meaning, trying to translate, to infer a hopefully felicitous statement which your mouth may utter in another tongue; the very tongue which captures me inside these code-switching and emotion-switching bars. Yes, we do share a lingua franca but that’s not enough, not when the languages of two bodies differ so much. And so I cannot lean towards you, tap your shoulder, or grab your hand, because in your traditional language that wouldn’t be right.
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