‘What Did I Do to be so Black and Blue?’: Afro-Absurdism in ‘Invisible Man,’ ‘Atlanta’ and ‘Sorry to Bother You’
‘A road that may lead nowhere’: Coetzee, Welsh and Becoming
Red, White and Blue Martyrdom: ‘American Sniper’
“Got a Cyberpsycho”: Control Societies and Spiritual Misery
‘Some Familiar Animal:’ Scott, Wells and The Colonial Gothic
‘We as a people’: Eugenics and Capitalism
‘What’s it going to be then, eh?’: State Paternalism and Medical Correction in 1960s Literature
Biopolitics and Humanity: ‘World War Z’ and ‘Hunter x Hunter’
Parental Trauma: The Moral Defence, The Uncanny and The Abject
Gothic Othering and English Progress
The Oriental Woman: An ‘Object of Desire and Derision’
Franklin and Poe: The Self Made and Unmade
‘Where all life dies, death lives’: Paradox, Paradise and the Real
Gender Instability and Lived Experience
(Alienation from) Home: ‘A Bird is not a Stone’ and ‘Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic’
An essay on a collection of Palestinian poetry and Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel ‘Fun Home.’ The first essay that I’m proud of.