From the Editors
The Editors of The Scattered Pelican are proud to present the contributions that appear in this volume, and which bravely grapple with all these nuances of ‘trans-’ and ‘trance’. While the main articles represent only a small number of the vastly diverse and stimulating conversations initiated during the (((Trans- & Trance))) conference, they are supplemented here by other valiant efforts to engage with the theme, including musings from our faculty members, a number of book and film reviews, and even creative texts with corresponding commentaries. It is our hope that such contributions provide fodder for critical conversations in a manner consistent with what we believe to be one of the foundational characteristics of Comparative Literature, that of being able to embrace pluralism and inhabit the aporias among discourses: in short, to be entranced by the ambiguities in the ruptures of continuity.
Articles
Justice through Mistranslation: On Erín Moure’s Foreignizing Methods
Nicole Sweeney Allen, State University of New York at Buffalo
Transgression and Transaction: On Pierre Klossowski’s Living Currency
Jeremy Bell, Trent University
Realismo Incesante: Desde La Vorágine Y La ‘Literatura De La Violencia’ Hacia La Recepción Crítica
Dagoberto Cáceres-Aguilar, Western University
Migratory Texts: Mutant Territories and the Language of Prosthesis
Cheryl A. Emerson, State University of New York at Buffalo
Desert/Destroy, Variation, Fourth Draft
Dru Farro, Western University
The Ecstasy of Language:
Ékstasis and the Differend in the Rhetorical Sublime
Dylan Vaughan, Western University
Semantic Plenitude and the Phenomenological Project: An In Situ Analysis of Psychogeographical Subject / Environment Relations
Sarah Warren, Western University
The Eye of Zeus: Madness, Transgression, and Dream in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound
Tristan Wicks, Western University
Book Reviews
Writing Across Cultures
Jaime R. Brenes-Reyes, Western University
The Poetics of Otherness
Kris Conner, Western University
Neoliberalism, Interrupted
Elizabeth Joy Gillespie, Florida Atlantic University
Film Reviews
Venus in Fur
Parastoo Alaeddini, Western University
Literary Reviews
Poems from The Second World
Rafael Antonio C. San Diego, Ateneo de Manila University
Sisyphe au Café
Mansour Bouaziz, Août 2015, Western University
The Deceptions of Sisyphe au Café
Alexandre Desbiens-Brassard, Western University
Faculty Musings
‘Trans-’: The Pure Problem of Comparison
David S. Ferris, University of Colorado at Boulder
Slavery, Transculturalism, and Transnationalism
Jonathan L. Hart, Western University
Thesis Bites
‘More or Less’ Refugee?: Bengal Partition in Literature and Cinema
Sarbani Banerjee, Western University
Being ‘Becomes You’: Actualizing Possible Worlds in Carroll, Flaubert, and Durrell
Sheena Jary, Western University
Peri Algeos: Pain in Aeschylus and Sophocles
Anda Pleniceanu, Western University