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A JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARSHIP A JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY Nebula VOL.5 ISSUE 4 IN THIS ISSUE : Migration, Sexuality & Muslim Identity 01. by Momin Rahman The Seven Ages of Kylie Minogue 35. by Lee Baron Swoosh Time: Nike's Art of Speed . Advertising 49 by Anna Notaro ISSN-1449 7751 Nebula 5.4, December 2008 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 5.4, December 2008 Content i Note on contributors 121 Baudrillard and Hölderlin and the Poetic 1 In Search of My Mother’s Garden: Resolution of the World. Reflections on Migration, Sexuality and Gerry Coulter Muslim Identity Momin Rahman 137 Hypnotist , Philosopher, Serial Killer, Friend: A Critical Review of Ian Brady’s 18 The Clover and the Cactus: Nineteenth- The Gates of Janus. Century Life in Southeast Texas. Anthony Metivier Julie Richko Labate 148 Engendering War in Hanan Al Shaykh’s 32 “Almásy’s Desire for Identity ‘Erasure’ in The Story of Zahra Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient” Isam M. Shihada Ahmad M.S. Abu Baker 161 Research Proposal and Thesis Writing: 35 The Seven Ages of Kylie Minogue: Narrative of a Recently Graduated Postmodernism, Identity, and Researcher in Applied Linguistics. Performative Mimicry. Joseph Benjamin Afful Lee Barron 177 The Deregulation of University Education 49 Swoosh time: Nike’s Art of Speed adver- in Nigeria: Implications for Quality tizing campaign and the Blogosphere. Assurance. Anna Notaro I. A. Ajayi and Haastrup T. Ekundayo 66 Digital Divide 2.0 and the Digital 191 Political Power and Intellectual Activism Subaltern. in Tanure Ojaide’s The Activist. Mike Kent Uzoechi Nwagbara 79 Allocation and Management of Resources for the Sustenance of Free Qualitative Secondary Education in Ondo State. F.O. Afolabi, L.M. Oyewusi and M.A Ajayi 90 Spirituality, Economics, and Education: A Dialogic Critique of “Spiritual Capital.” J. Gregory Keller and Rob Helfenbein 106 Tomson Highway’s “The Rez” Plays: Theater as the (E)Merging of Native Ritual through Postmodernist Displacement. Oswald Yuan-Chin Chang Nebula 5.4, December 2008 Note on contributors Ahmad S. Abu Baker Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Ahmad S. Abu Baker is Assistant Professor in English at Al al-Bayt University (Jordan since). He received his Doctorate in English and Comparative Lee Baron Literature from Murdoch University in Western Australia in 2002. He has previously published Lee Barron has degrees from Northumbria articles in Journal of Literature and Language, and Sunderland Universities. He is currently Nebula, Interactions, Interdisciplinary Humanities a senior lecturer in the Division of Media and Journal and Studies in Women Writers in English, Communication at Northumbria and teaches Interactions, Panjab University Research Journal in the areas of media and popular culture. Lee and the Journal of Arts and Human Sciences. Barron’s major teaching and research interests are popular music, media and celebrity and he has published in a number of journals including Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Joseph Benjamin Afful Culture, The Journal of Popular Culture, Chapter and Verse, International Review of the Aesthetics Currently a lecturer at the Department of and Sociology of Music, and a range of edited col- English at University of Cape Coast, Joseph lections such as Sound And Horror Cinema, Speak Benjamin Afful had his doctoral education at the To Me: The Legacy of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side Of National University of Singapore. He was also a The Moon’, Popular Music and Film, and Reality Postdoctoral Mellon Fellow at the University of Television as Film and History. the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research interests include Academic Literacy, Disciplinary Discourse/Variation, (Critical) Discourse Studies, Sociolinguistics, The interface between Oswald Yuan-Chin Chang Postgraduate Pedagogy and Writing, and Narrative Inquiry. He has published in leading interna- Yuan-chin Chang received his MA from the tional journals such as Journal of Multilingual National Chengchi University in Taiwan in English and Multicultural Development, Language and and American Literature. He has previously pub- Intercultural Communication, Nordic Journal lished articles in Nebula, Languages, Literary of African Studies, The International Journal of Studies and International Studies, Journal of Language, Society and Culture, and Nebula. National Taichung University Humanities & Arts, Journal of National Pingtung University of Education: Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Journal of National Taichung Institute of Technology and Isaac A. Ajayi NPUST Humanities and Social Sciences Research. His article on “Constructed Identities, the Medical Dr. Isaac Abiodun Ajayi is a Senior Lecturer in Gaze and Social Power Spaces in Margaret the Department of Educational Foundations and Edson’s Wit.” in Consciousness, Literature and Management, Faculty of Education, University of the Arts is forthcoming in August 2008. Chang is Note on Contributors i Nebula 5.4, December 2008 currently teaching at the Department of Applied of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. He is currently a Doctoral English Studies, China University of Technology, Degree candidate in the Department. Taiwan. Rob Helfenbein Gerry Coulter Rob Helfenbein is Assistant Professor of Teacher Gerry Coulter’s essay “Jean Baudrillard and the Education at Indiana University-Indianapolis and Definitive Ambivalence of Gaming” appeared in Associate Director of the Center for Urban and the SAGE journal Games and Culture (Volume Multicultural Education (CUME). He earned his 2, Number 4, December, 2007:358-365) – also Ph.D. and B.A. as well a doctoral Certificate in available on-line at: http://www.sagepub.com/ Cultural Studies from the University of North cgi/content/abstract/2/4/358. His recent Article: Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Helfenbein has pub- “A Place For The Non-Believer: Jean Baudrillard lished and edited numerous research articles and on the West and the Arab and Islamic Worlds”, book chapters about cultural studies of schools appears in Subaltern Studies: http://www.sub- and youth, globalization and urban development, alternstudies.com/?p=476; An essay “A Way of and contemporary education analysis in urban Proceeding: Joseph Beuys, the Epistemological contexts in journals such as: Review of Education, Break, and Radical Thought Today” appears Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Journal of in Kritikos: A Journal of Postmodern Cultural Curriculum Theorizing, and Theory and Research Sound, Text, and Image (May - June, 2008): in Social Education. His current research interests http://intertheory.org/gcoulter.htm; and his quar- include curriculum theorizing in urban contexts, terly column for Euro Art (On-line) Magazine: cultural studies of education, and the impact of “Kees van Dongen and the Power of Seduction” globalization on the lived experience of schools. (Spring 2008) is available at: http://www.euroar- tmagazine.com/new/?issue=13=1&content=156. Dr. Coulter’s teaching has been recognized on numerous occasions most recently by Bishop’s Greg Keller University’s highest award for teaching – the William and Nancy Turner Prize. This paper is Greg Keller is Senior Lecturer in the Department dedicated to Dr. Angela Failler, University of of Philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue Winnipeg, Canada. University Indianapolis. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Purdue University, M.Div. degree at Earlham School of Religion, and B.A. at Taylor University. Dr. Keller’s research interests and pub- Haastrup Timilehin Ekundayo lishing projects focus primarily on issues having to do with moral thinking, dialogue, spirituality, Haastrup Timilehin Ekundayo is a Lecturer in and cosmopolitanism. His most recent work cen- the Department of Educational