Page 1 Page 15 Page 140 Page 151 NEBULA Nebula 6.3, September 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 6.3, September 2009 Content i Note on contributors 131 The 1987 British Expedition in Historical Perspective: its Lessons and Challenges. 1 Male Myth-Making: The Origins of Dr. Victor Osaro Edo Feminism. Catherine Akca and Ali Gunes 140 Guitar Hero World Tour: a Creator of New Sonic Experiences? 15 Hooligan Writing and the Study of Matthew Ingram Football Fan Culture: Problems and Possibilities. 151 Sense and Sexuality: Foucault, Steve Redhead Wojnarowicz, and Biopower. Thomas J. Roach 43 Sphacelated Grammars (or: Language Likes to Hide). Kane X. Faucher 52 Surviving Neo-Liberalism: NGOs Under the Howard Years James Arvanitakis 68 Reconstructing Identities Through Resistance in Postcolonial Women’s Writing: A Reading of Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones. Omolola Ladele 82 Beyond the Studio: The Impact of Home Recording Technologies on Music Creation and Consumption. Matthew Homer 97 Is Nothing Sacred? Privatization and the Person. John O’Carroll and Chris Fleming 118 An Interface of the Old and the New: Creating the Conscious Nigerian via an Interrogation of Sophocles’ Antigone in Osofisan’s Tegonni. Emmanuel Folorunso Taiwo Nebula 6.3, September 2009 Note on contributors Catherine Akca Catherine Akca recently completed an MA in Victor Osaro Edo English Language and Literature (psycholin- guistics) at Kafkas University in Turkey, where Dr.Victor Osaro Edo is a lecturer in the she also works as a Lecturer. She has previously Department of History, University of Ibadan, published articles in Epiphany, the journal of the Ibadan. He specializes in Benin Studies as well as International University of Sarajevo, and in the political and cultural history. Edo has published Journal of Language and Linguistics. Catherine a number of articles in books and journals. Some also teaches English to children at a Turkish pri- of his published books include: African Culture mary school. and Civilization (Ibadan,2005),co-edited with O. Oguntomisin and African Civilisation from the Earliest Times to 1500 A.D. (Ibadan,2007). He is a member of the Historical Society of Nigeria (HSN) James Arvanitakis and is currently the coordinator of postgraduate programmes of the Department of History of the Dr James Arvanitakis is a lecturer in the University. Humanities at the University of Western Sydney and is a member of the University’s Centre for Cultural Research. James has worked as a human rights activist throughout the Pacific, Indonesia Kane X. Faucher and Europe. A regular media commentator, James’ latest book, Contemporary Society: A sociologi- Kane X. Faucher received his doctorate from the cal analysis of everyday life, was launched with University of Western Ontario’s Centre for the Oxford University Press in February 2009. Study of Theory & Criticism. He is an experimen- tal novelist living in Canada. His works of literary and academic endeavour have appeared recently in Exquisite Corpse, Recherche Litteraire, Janus John O’Carroll Head, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 3711Atlantic, Zygote in My Coffee 9, John O’Carroll works at Charles Sturt University, Quill and Ink, Jack Magazine and Defenestration Australia. Prior to that, he worked at the University (only to name a few). He has provided an edi- of Western Sydney, and the University of the tor’s introduction to Che Elias’ novel, The Pagan South Pacific (Fiji). He has published numerous Ellipsis. His novel, Urdox! was released in 2004, essays on literature and culture in Australia as well and Codex Obscura (with an introduction by as in the Pacific. With Bob Hodge, he is the author Raymond Federman) in 2005. His chapbook, Borderwork in Multicultural Australia (Allen and Cystem SansCrit, has been released by Dusty Owl Unwin), and with Chris Fleming he has written on Press. He is an editorial member of the journal, modernity in general, as well as a series of essays Skandalon. on generative anthropology. Note on Contributors i Nebula 6.3, September 2009 Chris Fleming in Literature, Film and Visual Culture at the University of Sussex and has conducted research Dr Chris Fleming is Head of Program (Dean’s on Pop Art, Romanticism and African American Scholars) and Senior Lecturer in the School of folktales. He was also involved in a documentary Humanities and Languages at the University of film on the Mod and Rocker subcultures which Western Sydney, and a member of its Writing and was screened at the See Documentary Festival in Society Research Group. He is on the Editorial Brighton. Matthew continues his research at the Board of the UCLA journal Anthropoetics and is University of Brighton and will be speaking about the author of René Girard: Violence and Mimesis his work on digital technologies and the music (Cambridge: Polity/Blackwell, 2004). industry at Bolton University’s ‘Conference in the City’ this October. Matthew can be contacted at [email protected] or matthewjhomer@ hotmail.com. Ali Gunes Associate Professor Ali Gunes is Acting Dean at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Matthew Ingram International University of Sarajevo.He is cur- rently teaching in the department of English Dr Matthew Ingram is a senior lecturer in Language and Literature at the International Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Brighton. In additional to being a researcher in Herzegovina. Associate Professor Gunes has pharmaceutical sciences he also has interests in published numerous articles on modern English the research of modern technology for both edu- literature, feminist and cultural issues and has cational and recreational purposes. presented several papers at International aca- demic conferences across the world. He published his first complete book in 2007 under the name of Dark Fields of Civilisation: A Cultural and Omolola Ladele Ideological Approach to The Issues of Women in the Novels of Virginia Woolf. Omolola Ladele is a senior Lecturer at the Dept. of English, Lagos State University,Ojo, Nigeria, where she teaches and supervises graduate and undergraduate students in several literary courses. Matthew Homer Ms Ladele’s current areas of interest include Women’s wrtings, Gender and Feminist theories Matthew Homer graduated with a First Class and Postcolonial literatures. She has published Honours in English with Media Studies from some articles in local and international journals in the University of Portsmouth where he com- these areas. pleted papers on the counterculture and American national identity, British comedy and postmod- ern literature. He recently completed a Masters Note on Contributors ii Nebula 6.3, September 2009 Steve Redhead Emmanuel Folorunso Taiwo Professor of Sport and Media Cultures in the Dr Emmanuel Folorunso Taiwo currently teaches Chelsea School, University of Brighton in the in the Department of Classics at the University of United Kingdom, Steve Redhead directs research Ibadan in Nigeria. into Mobile Accelerated Nonpostmodern Culture (MANC). He is Head of the Research Student Division of the Chelsea School. He has pub- lished fourteen books. He is co-editor of Berg’s Subcultural Style book series. He was educated at the Universities of Manchester and Warwick. Formerly Professor of Law and Popular Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University where he created and co-directed the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture (MIPC), he has also worked in Canada and Australia. His website is www. steveredhead.com. Thomas J. Roach Thomas J. Roach is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies in the Department of Literary and Cultural Studies at Bryant University. His recent publications include an analysis of cinematic representations of homi- cidal gay “buddies,” entitled, “Murderous Friends: Homosocial Excess in Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Van Sant’s Elephant (2003),” (The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, v. 29.2; forthcoming) as well as an exploration of the complex and com- pelling friendship between philosopher Michel Foucault and novelist/filmmaker Hervé Guibert, “Impersonal Friends: Foucault, Guibert, and an Ethics of Discomfort” (new formations 55, Spring 2005). Note on Contributors iii Nebula 6.3, September 2009 Male Myth-Making: The Origins of Feminism.