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Colloquy: Issue 40

Issue 40 of Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique is a general issue. We would like to thank outgoing editors-in-chief Guilia Mastrantoni and Francesca Teltscher Taylor for their scrupulous work on Issue 39. We would also like to thank our dedicated associate editors: Alice Capstick, Reuben Mackey, Thomas Palmer, Jackson C. Payne, George Sarantoulias and Shalom Verghese for their work on this issue.

Front Matter and Contents

Editorial

  • Alex Cain & Benjamin Jay, Co-editors-in-chief

Articles

Re-telling Daisy’s Narrative of War in The Great Gatsby

  • Helen Pretorius

Fashioning of the Self in the Historicisation of the Subject: The Foucauldian Legacy in Stephen Greenblatt’s Work Revisited

  • Zhu Wang

Traumatic Tourism and the Tide: Human and Planetary Futures in Selected Stories of Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond

  • Jarrel De Matas

Introduction to the Translation: Translation as a tool to facilitate a global dialogue about Colonialism, Sexual violence, and Online Resistance

  • Lena A. Hübner and Anne-Marie Pilote

Indigenous Women and Online Activism: Facebook and Twitter Uses to Counter Sexual Violence in the Wake of the Val-d’Or Police Scandal

  • Anne-Marie Pilote and Lena A. Hübner

Creative Writing

Beaded Confetti

  • Merav Fima

Island

  • James Bedford

Book reviews

Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater. London: Faber, 2019. ISBN: 9780571345403

  • Brooke Maddison

Dimitris Vardoulakis. Spinoza, The Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781474476041

  • Michael-Francis Polios