...Scott R. Stalcup Monsters in English Literature: From the Romantic Age to the First World War . By Paul Goetsch . Frankfurt : Peter Lang , 2002 . Pp. 344. pb. $52.95 . 0-820-45950-X. Copyright © 2004 Regents of the University of Colorado 2004 ...

... with community, nature, and the divine to become a reinforced first person singular or, first person plural, I&I.” At once an examination of Rasta ideology as well as a writerly journey into what it means to create in dialogue with that ideology, Douglas concludes with a fresh look at the Rasta...

...Elizabeth DeLoughrey Abstract Recently, scholars have called for a “critical ocean studies” for the twenty-first century and have fathomed the oceanic depths in relationship to submarine immersions, multispecies others, feminist and Indigenous epistemologies, wet ontologies, and the acidification...

... of its function. Most scholars agree that the work was composed in two layers (tenth and twelfth centuries), which together articulate the sefirotic cosmos at the heart of kabbalah. Close study reveals significant differences in the two layers, as the first is set in a dry and rocky landscape with...

...Cheryl Higashida Abstract How does an experimental prose take up the question of a diasporic “self”? Bhanu Kapil examines this question through the lens of a narrative set in the first hours of Britain's first Asian race riot on April 23, 1979. How do you write the body that is never allowed, in a...

...Francisco Aragón Abstract How does an experimental prose take up the question of a diasporic “self”? Bhanu Kapil examines this question through the lens of a narrative set in the first hours of Britain's first Asian race riot on April 23, 1979. How do you write the body that is never allowed, in a...

...Ruth Ellen Kocher Abstract How does an experimental prose take up the question of a diasporic “self”? Bhanu Kapil examines this question through the lens of a narrative set in the first hours of Britain's first Asian race riot on April 23, 1979. How do you write the body that is never allowed, in a...

...Jeremy Chow; Brandi Bushman Abstract In tracing the ways that eroticism and violence are mapped onto bodies of and relationships with water, this essay offers “hydro-eroticism” to consider an ecofeminist and queer ecological reading of water. Hydro-eroticism signifies two interventions: first, how...

...Pavel V. Basharin Abstract This article examines the story of Iblīs’s disobedience in early Sufism. The motif of justifying and condemning Satan is a characteristic feature of the ideological heritage of some Sufis. The first Sufi line estimates Satan as a sufferer and a sacrifice of God’s...

...Manuela Ceballos Abstract The life and works of the beguine Marguerite Porete were transformed by fire. In 1310 Marguerite was burned alive in Paris as the first recorded “mystical heretic” of the French Inquisition. A few years earlier her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls , had also been burned in...

... sources in Halilname . First, the Ottoman state did not have a canonized orthodox Islamic system until Süleyman I (r. 1520–66), and this lack of canonization gave Islamic mystics greater liberty to say what they wanted. Second, a zeitgeist of religious syncretism drew inspiration from the mysticism that...

... of Chicano in her first book to her academic press editors, the author meditates on the politics of Latinx versus Chicanx, the pitfalls and promises of nationalist discourse, and the need to nurture and cultivate a vibrant Chicanx studies as a counter to the neocolonial tendencies of academic...

... between first-person autobiography and third-person biography. Accordingly, their article takes a hybrid form, combining a definitional preface with the transcript of a three-way, improvisatory dialogue. Biographical interrogation yields to triographical narrative, a polyphonic form in which the presence...

... inherited religious superstitions of the medieval “Dark Ages”; and ushered forth the modern age of empiricism, progress, and even scientific “revolution.” Columbus’s first transatlantic journey is hereby seen as the watershed event that propelled Western culture on its distinctly modern path, a path that...

... de Nuevo México, Antonio de Otermín, reported on the revolt of the Pueblo Indians. That letter describes how, after more than eighty years of Spanish rule in the region, Puebloans rebelled on August 10, killing four hundred Spaniards. Since 1990 an English translation of Otermín’s account (first...