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ISSN-1449 7751 NEBULA Sarah Antinora (page 8) James Keller (page 18) Steve Redhead (page 35) Nebula 6.2, June 2009 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 6.2, June 2009 Content i Note on contributors 103 State Violence and the Writer: Towards the Dialectics of Intellectual Militancy 1 Voice of Protest against ‘Universal Male in Transcending Postcolonical Nigerian Sexual Sadism’: an Interview with Contradictions. Sarojini Sahoo. Uzoechi Nwagbara Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal 120 “Put Not Your Trust in Princes”:Fables 8 It’s Still a Long Way Coming: The and the Problematisation of Everyday Importance of Humanizing the Same-Sex Life. Marriage Discussion. Wilson Koh Sarah Antinora 131 Writing Irish Nationhood: Jonathan 18 Disorderly Conduct: an Interrogation of Swift’s Coming to Terms with his Residual Sodomy Laws Five Years after Birthplace. Lawrence v. Texas. Afrin Zeenat James Keller 147 Nights at the airport 35 Before the Bunker. Alice Mills Steve Redhead 149 The Prevalence of Hypokinetic Disorders 46 Footballers’ Wive$’ Tanya Turner: Among Workers in Tertiary Institutions Bolivian Marching Powder, Booze and in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Baby Snatching = D.I.V.A.! J.A Adegun,and E.P. Konwea Michael Angelo Tata 61 Companion Species under Fire: A Defense of Donna Haraway’s The Companion Species Manifesto. Chris Vanderwees 69 The Modern World through the Luminous Path of Prose Fiction: Reading Graham Greene’s A Burnt-out Case and The Confidential Agent as Dystopian Novels. Ayobami Kehinde 84 Bird Citing: On the Aesthetics and Techno-Poetics of Flight. Christopher Schaberg Nebula 6.2, June 2009 Note on contributors J.A. Adegun and E.P. Konwea spring of 2008 and is currently working towards a PhD in English with expected completion in 2012. Professor Adegun is a professor of Kinesiology at She currently teaches freshman composition on a the University of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state, Nigeria. part-time basis at California State University at Pat Konwea is a health Educator at the same San Bernardino. University. Ayobami Kehinde Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal Ayobami Kehinde teaches African Literature, Dr.Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal is Senior Lecturer New Literatures in English and Modern Authors in English at Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli, and Literary Theories at the University of Ibadan, (U.P.), India. His interviews with a number of con- Nigeria. He was a Principal Participant in the 2008 temporary literary figures, as well as his research Institute on Contemporary American Literature, papers, book reviews, articles and poems have hosted at University of Louisville, Kentucky. appeared in South Asian Review, Kavya Bharati, He has published or has forthcoming articles in The Vedic Path, IJPCL, Quest, The Confluence, Revista De Filologia Ingles (English Studies), Kafla Intercontinental, Pegasus and IJOWLAC, to Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, African name but a few. He edits Parnassus: An Innovative Literature Today, Nordic Journal of African Journal of Literary Criticism. He can be contacted Studies, African Studies Monograph, Ufahamu, at [email protected] or nilanshu1973@ Proverbium, Studies in the Humanities, Journal rediffmail.com. of African Literature and Culture, African Journal of New Poetry, African Identities and the Journal of African Culture. Sarah Antinora After teaching middle school language arts James Keller for twelve years, Sarah Antinora returned to California State University at San Bernardino James R. Keller is Chair of English and Theatre in the fall of 2006 to earn a Master’s Degree in and Prof. of early modern English at Eastern English. In June 2008 Antinora was named the Kentucky University in Richmond, KY USA. He Outstanding Graduate Student for the College of is the author of five monographs, the most recent Arts and Letters. Her Master’s thesis—an explo- of which is _V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche_ ration of Bakhtin’s carnivalesque as seen in the (McFarland 2008) and four collections (co-edited music of Frank Zappa—serves as just one exam- with Dr. Leslie Strayner of Mississippi University ple of her interest in the many intersections of for Women), most recently _The Deep End of rhetoric and literature studies. She was awarded South Park_ (McFarland 2009). Keller is also the the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship Award author of over fifty articles and chapters on diverse by the University of California at Riverside in subjects, including early modern literature, film, Note on Contributors i Nebula 6.2, June 2009 gender, and cultural studies. for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) and European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE). Wilson Koh Wilson Koh is a 2008 graduate of the University of Queensland’s English, Media Studies and Art Steve Redhead History Honours program. His current research interests revolve around the framing of terrorist Steve Redhead is Professor of Sport and Media activities as all-ages entertainment in anime, and Cultures in the Chelsea School, University of around the mock-scholarly use of footnotes in fan- Brighton, Hillbrow, Eastbourne BN20 7SR, United tasy fiction. Kingdom. He is author, or editor, of fifteen books. His personal website is http://www.steveredhead. com and his e-mail address is S.C.Redhead@ brighton.ac.uk. Alice Mills Alice Mills is Associate Professor in literature and children’s literature at the University of Ballarat Christopher Schaberg (Australia). She is a prolific writer who has pub- lished both academic and creative work as well Christopher Scahberg is currently a Ph.D. candi- as edited collections. Her most recent book is date at the University of California, Davis. His Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake. dissertation concerns the “textual aspects of air- ports in U.S. culture.” He argues “that “airport reading” is a distinct way to inhabit space and kill time amidst the aura of modern flight.” In Uzoechi Nwagbara August 2009, he will join the English Department at Loyola University New Orleans, where he will Uzoechi Nwagbara is a freelance journalist, act as assistant professor of contemporary litera- writer, academic and poet. He has published a vol- ture and Critical Theory. ume of poetry, Polluted Landscape (2002); On a Deathly Plain and Environmental Poetry and the Postcolonial Nigerian Experience are forthcom- ing. He is adjunct lecturer at London College of Michael Angelo Tata Business Management. He earned both B.A and M.A degrees in English at Abia State University Michael Angelo Tata received his M.A. in Creative and University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria respec- Writing/Poetry from Temple University, his M.A. tively. Currently, he is completing his doctoral in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social research in postcolonial literature at Limkokwing Research, and his Ph.D. in English Literature University London. He is a member of Association through the CUNY Graduate Center. His poetry Note on Contributors ii Nebula 6.2, June 2009 and criticism have appeared in the journals LinQ, Nebula, M/C, Ugly Couch, Lit, Lungfull, eye: rhyme, kenning, Bad Subjects, Found Object, Rhizomes and to the quick, as well as the Critical Studies compilation From Virgin Land to Disney World: Nature and Its Discontents in the USA of Yesterday and Today (Editions Rodopi, 2001) and the Madonna Studies anthology Madonna’s Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations (Ashgate UK, 2004). His first chapbook of poems, The Multiplication of Joy into Integers, won Blue Light Press’ 2003 poetry prize. His poetry has also appeared in the collections This New Breed: Bad Boys, Gents and Barbarians 2 (Windstorm, 2004) and Bordered Sexualities (San Diego State, 2006). Chris Vanderwees Chris Vanderwees recently won Canada’s CGS SSHRC Master’s scholarship, the highest Canadian academic award at the Master’s level. He is interested in contemporary American liter- ature, women’s and gender studies, and Vietnam and Iraq war literature. He will be attending Carleton University’s English PhD program this Fall. Afrin Zeenat Afrin Zeenat currently teaches in English at Dakha University in Bangladesh. She received an MA in English from the University of Arkansas. Note on Contributors iii Nebula 6.2, June 2009 Voice of Protest against ‘Universal Male Sexual Sadism’: an Interview with Sarojini Sahoo.