The Journal of Contemporary Thought
Winter Issue - 2012

Contents:

Locating Literature: Geography, History, Ecology

- Alan Johnson

Out of Place: The Ecopoetics of Dislocation

- Jenny Morse

Artists in Search of Themselves:

Stendhal and D.H. Lawrence in Italy

- Naveed Rehan

Representing the Natural Space in Pre-Revolutionary

America: An Ecocritical Understanding of John Bartram

- Li-Ru Lu

An Ecocritical Reading of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing

- Ambika Bhalla

Postcolonial Identities: The Fragmented Self in

Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men

- Dahood El-Oqla

Failed Thirdspaces and the Search for Home in Michael Cunningham's

A Home at the End of the World

- Daniel Shank Cruz

Impenetrable Mental Spaces: Flawed Perception in Paradise Lost,

the Nibelungenlied, Macbeth and Catch-22

- Shawn Boyd

Calvinist Rhetoric in Robinson Crusoe's

Earthenware Episode

- Ryan Topper

Landscape, Environmental In/Justice, and the Dilemma of Nationalism

in Chatterji's Anandamath and Mistry's A Fine Balance

- Kimberly N. Madsen

"Always Better, Less Rude, to Talk about Things

That Were the Same": The Necessity of Otherness

to a Functioning Public Sphere

- Valerie Ann Surrett

Fakir Mohan Senapati's Six Acres and a Third"

Towards a Bio-Political Literature

- Jyotirmaya Tripathy

   Notes on Contributors