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Molly Canons: The Role of Slang and Text in the Formation of Queer Eighteenth-Century Culture
No full textThinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts
Get PDFWhy do we love wizards? Where do these magical figures come from? Thinking Queerly traces the wizard from medieval Arthurian literature to contemporary YA adaptations. By exploring the link between Merlin and Harry Potter, or Morgan la Fey and Sabrina, readers will see how the wizard offers spaces of hope and transformation for young readers. In particular, this book examines how wizards think differently, and how this difference can resonate with both LGBTQ and neurodivergent readers, who’ve been told they don’t fit in.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mip_ptl/1000/thumbnail.jp
From the Basement: Stories about Geeks, Gamers, and Freaks
Get PDFThis thesis is a creative work of fiction in the form of one novella and four short stories. The collection is a work of humour and entertainment. “The Coin Collective” delves into the cut-throat world of cosplay, “The Dead of Waynesboro” follows Declan Mortel as her tries to create the ultimate zombie movie in true gothic fashion, “220 Torren Mill Road” is an epistolary horror story about a whack-job mother and her game-addicted son, “Dragon’s Lair Comics & Collectables” is set during a Magic the Gathering tournament and questions ‘what makes a monster?,’ and Chemical Connection explores drug and raver culture through an eclectic variety of characters.
I hope the collection will speak to an entire generation of self-described and closet geeks. For those without intimate knowledge of the material, I endeavoured to exhibit, even expose, aspects of specific subcultures, shedding light on the basement dwellers who inhabit them
Reclaimed
Get PDFReclaimed is a medical thriller with science fiction tendencies. The narrative follows Grace, a gardener for a wealthy mayor. Grace is a Reclaimed Human mutated by the vaccine for a population-crushing pandemic. She lives a ‘healthy’ life, reliant on medications to keep her from succumbing to the leftover ailments of her past mutation. Her work with the wealthy family provides her with free medication that Elencos, the genetics company, manufactures. Out of fear of illness, Elencos has become the central authority in society. Though Grace starts to doubt the genetics company when instances of vandalism are downplayed, it is not until a friend is arrested for such occurrences that she decides to leave her home in hopes of helping her friend. She quickly aligns with the rebel group Vega, and discovers the depths of the tyrannical genetics company’s abuse of power. Medical authority has created a rigid status quo and Grace enters into a quest for emancipation, not just for herself, but for all Reclaimed Humans, from this oppressive structure
The Plastic Castle and Less Obvious Disasters
No full textA Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Creative Writing and English, University of Regina. v, 105 l.This creative project is a manuscript of short fiction works, which explores the style of literary minimalism and its affiliate, ‘dirty realism’. The stories utilize compact sentence structure, the element of exclusion, and compressed meaning to convey their significance. As well, several of the works in the manuscript employ ekphrasis, as a tool to expand and reflect the narrative.Studentye
"Big Damn Heroes": Zoe Washburn and the Evolution of the Warrior Women in Firefly
No full textA Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Media Studies, University of Regina. v, 93 p.This thesis explores the evolution of science fiction television in the United States
alongside the disruption of the third wave of feminism as a result of the turn to patriotism
and nationalism following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Specifically, I look at
the subgenre of space opera, examining how presentations of women characters have
changed throughout the subgenre’s history. Where women once occupied juvenile roles
such as a damsel in distress, as is the case in Captain Video and His Video Rangers
(1949-1955) and Tom Corbet, Space Cadet (1950-1955), they now embody more
complex and multifaceted characters.
I specifically examine the series Firefly (2002-2003), which emerged in the
television landscape following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I focus on the character of Zoë
Washburne, a war veteran and smuggler, who represents an evolution of the now-clichéd
warrior woman trope in narrative media. Prior to Zoë, television in the 1990s experienced
a surge in warrior women, highlighted by characters such as Xena from Xena: Warrior
Princess (1995-2001) and Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).
These characters strongly reflect values of the third wave of feminism, such as
individuality and personal liberation. In discussing these heroines, I heavily draw upon
Dawn Heinecken’s book The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural
Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media, where she attempts to create a
conversation among herself and other scholars to define and interpret characteristics of
warrior women on television.
Using Heinecken’s conversation as a blueprint for the warrior woman, I then
explore Prudence Chamberlain’s interpretations of fourth wave feminism in her book,
The Feminist Fourth Wave. The combination of the warrior woman definition and new
interpretations of feminism facilitate the analysis of Zoë as a new type of warrior woman,
which I describe as the Volunteer Woman.Studentye
Until the pale daybreak: essays from the periphery
No full textUntil the Pale Daybreak: Essays from the Periphery is a collection of personal essays, in the form of a commonplace book, primarily exploring my experiences and memories of grief. These emotions are accompanied by travel through cities in Europe, North America and Brazil, and while these are essays of loss - either a physical loss, such as that of a parent, or an emotional bereavement, for a place or time - the essays also touch on literature, film, religion, human nature, and melancholia. Throughout the collection I write from the periphery of my life, choosing how much to reveal textually, inviting the reader to gaze alongside me, and at me, but always from a distance. The pieces range from childhood experience through to adult reflections, and an acceptance of the cards life has dealt. Along the way I reflect on varied subjects and characters, from assisted suicide, to the French musical star Dalida, and from Quentin Crisp, to mountaineer Jonathan Conville. The intention of these parallel lives is to complement my own narrative and take a reader back to the fringes of my conversation. The writing in this collection is varied. Certainly some sections are very sad, an emotion that seems unavoidable when writing about bereavement, but there is also humour, poetry, and calmness. The pieces are conversations, often to myself, that I am allowing the reader to eavesdrop on, perhaps witnessing something of their own lives in the writing, and provoking moments of reflection
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