The Scattered Pelican

The official graduate student journal of Comparative Literature at Western University in London, ON, Canada.

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Literary Reviews – Fall 2015

San Diego, Rafael Antonio. Poems from The Second World.

Toledo, Joel. Foreword to The Second World.

Bouaziz, Mansour. Sisyphe au café.

Desbiens-Brassard, Alexandre. The Deceptions of ‘Sisyphe au café’.

Winter 2019 – Matter(s) of Fact

  • From the Chair
  • Faculty Contribution
    • PROPHETS/VILLAINS: THREE STOPS ON THE ROAD TO POST-FACTICITY
  • Articles
    • “SUCH MOVING ACCENTS”: DE-SCRIBING TRUTH IN DEFOE’S A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
    • “WHAT MIGHT NOT HAVE HAPPENED TO MEN?”: DARWINISM, SECULARITY, AND BIBLICAL MOTIFS IN THE TIME MACHINE
    • A RHETORIC OF “BELONGINGS”: OBJECTS, PROCEDURALITY, AND MEMORY IN C̓ƏSNAʔƏM
    • THERE IS NO PORNOGRAPHY IN HOSPITALS: THE HOSPITAL AS A DESEXUALIZING SPACE
    • BLACK FEMINISM AND THEORIZING DIFFERENCE
    • PANTA RHEI AND THE PERSISTENCE OF OLD PREMISES: A METALOGUE BETWEEN HERACLITUS AND MARCUS AURELIUS[1]
    • TRUISMES: QUÊTE IDENTITAIRE ET TENTATIVE DE REDÉFINITION DE LA NORME HUMAINE AU PROFIT D’UNE VISION POSTHUMAINE
  • Reviews
    • EMILY APTER’S UNEXCEPTIONAL POLITICS: ON OBSTRUCTION, IMPASSE, AND THE IMPOLITIC
    • MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ: OU VOIR LE MONDE À NEUF
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Winter 2018 – Toxic/Cities

  • From the Chair
  • From the Editors
  • Meet the Team
  • Faculty Contribution
    • Kali’s Forlorn Ideology: Five Cryptic Keys for Postconceptual Posterity
  • Articles
    • “We Are All in Our Private Traps”: Transphobia in Hitchcock’s Psycho
    • “Where Wild Women Grow”: Nature, Wildness, and the Search for Identity in Toni Morrison’s Jazz
    • Affirming Decay: Towards the Possibility of a Future-oriented Diagonal Left for Detroit’s Abandoned Population
    • Cities of Salt: Slow Violence and the Emergence of Islamic Radicalism in Abdel Rahman Munif’s Petrofiction
  • Reviews
    • Imaginary Ethnographies
    • Re-Imagining the City
    • Arabic Prison in Literature
    • Writing the Global City
    • Fernando Aramburu’s Patria
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  • From the Editors
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    • Walls of Freedom
    • Monstrosity
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  • Thesis Bites
    • Karim Abuawad
    • Driton Nushaj
    • Leah Persaud
    • Yanxiang Wu
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Fall 2015

  • From the Editors
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  • Reviews
    • BOOK REVIEWS
      • Writing Across Cultures
      • The Poetics of Otherness
      • Neoliberalism, Interrupted
    • FILM REVIEWS
      • Venus in Fur
    • LITERARY REVIEWS
      • Poems from The Second World
      • Sisyphe au Café
  • Faculty Musings
    • ‘TRANS-’: THE PURE PROBLEM OF COMPARISON
    • SLAVERY, TRANSCULTURALISM, AND TRANSNATIONALISM
  • New Publications
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    • Sarbani Banerjee
    • Sheena Jary
    • Anda Pleniceanu
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  • Winter 2020- Coding/Decoding/Recoding
  • “SUCH MOVING ACCENTS”: DE-SCRIBING TRUTH IN DEFOE’S A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
  • “WHAT MIGHT NOT HAVE HAPPENED TO MEN?”: DARWINISM, SECULARITY, AND BIBLICAL MOTIFS IN THE TIME MACHINE
  • A RHETORIC OF “BELONGINGS”: OBJECTS, PROCEDURALITY, AND MEMORY IN C̓ƏSNAʔƏM
  • THERE IS NO PORNOGRAPHY IN HOSPITALS: THE HOSPITAL AS A DESEXUALIZING SPACE
  • BLACK FEMINISM AND THEORIZING DIFFERENCE
  • PANTA RHEI AND THE PERSISTENCE OF OLD PREMISES: A METALOGUE BETWEEN HERACLITUS AND MARCUS AURELIUS[1]

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