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Topia 22

Fall 2009

Table of Contents

Articles

Adam Muller
Asking Too Much, Receiving Too Little: Indigenous Identity and the Aims of Science


Stephen Maddison
"The Second Sexual Revolution": Big Pharma, Porn and the Biopolitical Penis


Jon Gordon
"Bent to the Shape of Wordlessness": Home, Hogs and Community at the Limits of Discourse

Jane Tolmie
Modernism, Memory and Desire: Queer Cultural Production in  Alison Bechdel's Fun Home

Sean Brayton
Race Comedy and the "Misembodied" Voice


Andrea Medovarski
"Boxing Ain't No Game": Clement Virgo's Poor Boy's Game as Canadian Racial Counter-narrative


Ryan Porter
Pictures of the Past: The Small-Town Myth as Heritage, or Understanding and Articulating Community through Texts of the Past


Milena Tomic
Reframing the Invisible: On the Uses of "Bare Life" in Art


Mark Featherstone
The Virus of Fear and the Politics of Globalization

Review Essays

Steven Logan
The Automobile in Crisis


Marcus Breen
Cultural Studies in the Internet Context: The Theory Challenge


Jessica L. Shumake
A Saunter through History


Jane L. Parpart
Remaking the World: Can the Elite Listen and the Subaltern Speak?

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