{"title":"Diasporic (Be)longing: Dan Taulapapa McMullin's ‘The Viole(n)t Cat’","authors":"Mandy Treagus","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article explores the multiple contexts behind ‘The Viole(n)t Cat’ by expatriate poet, Sāmoan Dan Taulapapa McMullin, now resident in the US. It is especially concerned with the ways in which the poem crosses national and hemispheric boundaries while remaining embedded in multiple instances of the local and translocal. While the poem begins in Turtle Island, it soon considers the twin islets of Ofu and Olosega in American Sāmoa, places of striking natural features. While evoking this beauty, the poem also suggests the significance of the strait between the islands and its notable role as a symbol of the long and intertwined relationship between Sāmoa and Tonga over many centuries. The wider context of ongoing Polynesian longing and mobility, producing not only the Polynesian triangle itself but also its contemporary diaspora, evokes the original homeland, Hawaiki, as both literal origin and ongoing ontological sustenance.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142708220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tahitian Author Célestine Vaite's Multilingual Writing: A Stitching of Languages and Experiences Across Oceania","authors":"Manuia Heinrich Sue","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Tahitian author Célestine Vaite's novels <i>Breadfruit</i> (2000), <i>Frangipani</i> (2004), and <i>Tiare in Bloom</i> (2006) are set in 1970s Tahiti and written mainly in English, but they feature numerous occurrences of French, the colonial language of Mā‘ohi Nui (French Polynesia), Tahitian, the most spoken Indigenous language of the region, and Franitian, often referred to as Tahitian-French, a vernacular born from the cohabitation of French and Tahitian. The literary multilingualism of Vaite's books constitutes an active medium of diasporic and Indigenous identity assertion. Drawing from Pacific concepts of diaspora, Indigeneity, and postcolonialism, I explore how Vaite's languages reflect Pacific connections and actively sustain links between Pacific peoples, notably through colonial critiques and the thematic of movement. Mā‘ohi scholar Kareva Mateata-Allain uses the metaphor of the va'a (the Tahitian canoe) to posit literature as a tool that enables crossing the invisible, colonial barriers between Francophone and Anglophone regions and peoples (2005, 2008). Considering the isolating power of the French language in a region dominated by English, Mateata-Allain's approach underlines the wish of Mā‘ohi authors, including Vaite, to prioritize common Pacific experiences. Since Vaite's stitching of languages defies conceptions of linguistic zones in Oceania, I consider her use of English and of her three native languages from Mā‘ohi Nui as a strategy that decentralizes cultural experiences and identities and relocates them in a literary space that is uniquely hers.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142708222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Tīvaevae Framework: Indigenising the Process of Novel Writing","authors":"Stacey Kokaua-Balfour","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While there is a large amount of literary research and prose produced about the Pacific, only a small amount of work considers Indigenous interpretation and production of literature within the region. This essay explores the potential of Indigenous concepts in literary analysis and creative writing practice from a Māori perspective, Māori being the name of the Indigenous people of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, located near the centre of the Pacific Ocean. By applying the Tīvaevae framework, a Cook Islands research method most often used to inform research in education, social sciences and quantitative research, creative writing becomes a collaborative process that mimics the crafting of tīvaevae quilts. The article also discusses how the archetype of the calabash breaker, based on the Tusitala Marsh poem, was engaged during this process. It concludes with a discussion on what it means to be a Māori writer in an academic environment that calls for ‘Pacific scholars’.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142708221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BookTok: A Narrative Review of Current Literature and Directions for Future Research","authors":"Jeroen Dera","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Harvesting hundreds of billions of views, the hashtag #BookTok on TikTok is currently having a global impact on the production, distribution and reception of literature. This article assesses the academic research conducted thus far on this online literary phenomenon. It differentiates among three directions in the research: (1) BookTok as a specific form of book reviewing; (2) BookTok as a literary community-builder; and (3) BookTok as an agent in reading promotion. Based on this narrative review, directions for future research are explored, with particular attention to the use of empirical methodologies to further investigate user experiences, the application of a celebrity studies lens, and a focus on BookTok accounts that combine affective and critical approaches to literature, exploring discussions on political, social, and environmental issues within the platform.</p>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lic3.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142708064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doggerel Verse and Critical Recoil","authors":"Andrea Denny-Brown","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Early 20th-century critics rediscovered a literary concept called “doggerel” in Geoffrey Chaucer's <i>Sir Thopas</i> and in John Lydgate's mid-clash poetic line, using the term to help them categorize and periodize the shift in English literature from medieval to modern. A close look at this undertheorized term and its early iterations in Chaucer's poetry and Lydgate's verse makes clear that doggerel has been a crucial if underthought player not only in English metrical development, but also in the history of literary critique, as a versified counterstrategy that maps the contours of the unpoetic, challenges budding poetic norms, and works simultaneously to introduce and to upend traditional critical notions like the poet's ear.</p>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lic3.70003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142665986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chaucerian Theatricality: Then and Now","authors":"Seth Lerer","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>John Ganim's 1990 book, <i>Chaucerian Theatricality</i>, raised important questions about the methods of studying Chaucer's public poetry and, in turn, about the relationships among authorial, narratorial, and critical voices, both in his time and ours. This paper reconsiders Ganim's book in the context of Chaucerian criticism of the 1990s, and it develops the implications of its notion of theatricality to embrace new readings of the <i>Tales</i> and new approaches to twenty-first-century debates in Chaucer scholarship. The paper concludes by arguing that the real, current site of Chaucerian theatricality lies in the areas of teaching and research, especially in the recent publication and dissemination of work reassessing the status of Chaucer's <i>raptus</i> of Cecily of Chaumpaigne.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142438978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medievalism, Orientalism, and the Botany of the Holy Land","authors":"Shayne Aaron Legassie","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article considers the intersection of medievalism and Orientalism in the botanical study of the Holy Land from the Middle Ages itself through the 1930s.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rehearsing Words and Gestures in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde","authors":"Stephanie Trigg","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Geoffrey Chaucer's <i>Troilus and Criseyde</i> offers many rhetorical lessons and models in how to speak and behave well according to the mediaeval conventions of <i>fin'amor.</i> The first three books of the poem are especially concerned with the best ways to control and express deep feeling. The two lovers prepare nervously for their first meeting at the beginning of Book III. Troilus, in particular, rehearses and seeks to memorise the best words, gestures, and facial expressions to use when he first speaks with Criseyde. In Book V, Diomede enacts very similar practices in his seduction of Criseyde, but the reader is encouraged to read this as a different kind of deliberate performance. Using the work of Monique Scheer and other theorists of emotional practice and the history of emotions, this essay explores the ambiguity of performance as both a rehearsed theatrical mode; and as the practice and affirmation of conventional forms of emotional expression. It concludes by proposing that Thomas Hoccleve's ‘mirror scene’ in his <i>Compleinte</i> draws on Troilus's rehearsals, adopting the performance anxiety associated with romantic love for his own more social and public concerns.</p>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lic3.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Islamic Medievalism and Mobility in Mathias Énard's Street of Thieves","authors":"Louise D'Arcens","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring uprisings, Jihadist extremism, and the neoliberal exploitation of the Global South, Mathias Énard's 2012 novel <i>Street of Thieves</i> (<i>Rue des voleurs</i>) follows the fortunes of Lakhdar, a young man from Tangier who finds himself living as an undocumented migrant in Barcelona's notorious Carrer d’En Robador, the Street of Thieves. Lakhdar's misadventures are shaped by regional and global forces which have compelled Moroccan nationals to seek political and economic asylum in Mediterranean Europe. Although <i>Street of Thieves</i> is strikingly contemporary, this essay explores the novel's medievalism: its contrasting of the grim present with the premodern Islamic world as an era of sophistication, mobility and cultural exchange. The essay focuses on Lakhdar's preoccupation with his fellow Tangier native Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century traveler and writer whose life becomes a frame through which Lakhdar views his own. It argues that contrary to the current tendency to view Ibn Battuta's world as a precursor to modern globalised culture, Énard's novel invokes cosmopolitan Islamic premodernity to comment on the turmoil of the modern Islamosphere and the harm done to the Islamicate world by Western neo-colonialism and neoliberalism.</p>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lic3.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing John Ganim's Theatricality, Medievalism, and Orientalism","authors":"Christopher Queen","doi":"10.1111/lic3.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The following introduction provides a personal and critical backdrop for a cluster of five essays that celebrate the pedagogical and scholarly career of Dr. John Ganim following his recent retirement from the University of California, Riverside. By way of a brief review of Ganim's Chaucerian Theatricality and Medievalism and Orientalism, this introduction highlights the foundational arguments of Ganim's book-length studies to provide prefatory context for the essays that follow from the cluster's contributing authors: Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne), Louise D'Arcens (Macquarie University), Seth Lerer (University of California, San Diego), Andrea Denny-Brown (University of California, Riverside), and Shayne Legassie (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45243,"journal":{"name":"Literature Compass","volume":"21 10-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}