The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man was published at the start of the 20th century, and the story’s setting is the post-Reconstruction era in the United States. The novel focuses on racial identity, but it also prominently ...

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents Jay Gatsby, the eponymous hero of his novel, through images framed by the narrator, Nick Carraway. Gatsby appears as the exotic ‘other’ in the first image and a wannabe ...

A technologically-dependant village in a fantasy land use magic to summon new technicians. Unfortunately, there was a mistake in the spell and two people from “our” world were transported, instead of people from the fantasy ...

With neither central action nor central subject, Richard Linklater’s film Slacker wanders through a seemingly average day in Austin, Texas in 1989. In response to this diffuse narrative structure and the film’s constant ...

Ridley Scott’s 1982 film, Blade Runner presents a postmodern world in decay where advanced technology has allowed technocratic corporations to become the ruling elites while the natural environment has been completely ...

“Through the Wardrobe: A Comparative Analysis of C.S. Lewis’s Common-Man Christianity in Radio Talks and Fairy Tales” is an essay looking at two different works of C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia, a children’s fantasy ...

With the work of Foucault and Aphra Behn’s critics in mind, I aim to construct a biopolitical analysis that clarifies Behn’s contradictory depictions of slavery in Oroonoko and shows how Behn’s Royalist views inflect her ...

South of Broadway Bridge is a collection of two linked stories that take place in Inwood, Manhattan. The first story, Don’t Shoot, is about a fourteen-year-old biracial boy named Max who has been struggling socially since ...

This paper examines the cultural dislocation/relocation of the hyphenated space in the term “Chinese-American” by looking at humor in relation to themes of multiplicity, transition, and instability in Gish Jen’s collection ...