In the sections on Burgess, I am careful to avoid in anyway humanizing the likes of Alex and his droogs, and all I say there applies here. But it raises some fundamental questions, about how such ears turned deaf, such minds closed off: What role can we as educators play in a larger information ecology to counter this?
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JNT 51.1 Featured Author: Dr. Chen Edelsburg
Love is often thought about as something that cannot be interpreted, something that even resists interpretation (as Freud claims in “Observations on Transference Love”). Therefore, scholars may have felt that Buddy-Salinger’s love for characters blocked their ability to interpret the text, to understand it, and to produce knowledge about it.
JNT 50.3 Featured Author: Dr. Nasia Anam
There were many moments I felt suddenly that I had no right to be there as a traveler, or more so a vacationer, when so many hundreds were dying just to place their feet on the same Mediterranean terra firma where I stood. It is an injustice so vast and cruel that I still cannot fully fathom it, despite having spent nearly a decade studying and writing about postcolonial migration to Europe.
JNT 50.2 Featured Author: Dr. Stephen Sohn
Dr. Stephen Sohn The journey that this article took to publication was quite long. I wrote the initial draft of what would be published in JNT around 2008, when I was working on my first book, Racial Asymmetries. At that…
JNT 50.2 Featured Author: Dr. Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar
Dr. Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar As of today, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend saga has sold over ten million copies around the world. A global phenomenon, Ferrante has cemented her reputation as one of this century’s most formidable storytellers. This…
JNT 50.2 Featured Author: Dr. Christopher Douglas
Dr. Christopher Douglas I read Natsume Sōseki’s first novel, I am a Cat (1905-06), while teaching in a costal community in Chiba Prefecture as a part of the JET Programme after completing my bachelor’s degree. I tried to use my…
A Brief History of JNT
A Brief History of JNT by Paul Bruss Note from the Editors: This 50th Anniversary Issue was introduced by Paul Bruss, who played a key role in steering the journal through a critical five-year transition, 1993–99 (Vol. 23–27), when it…
JNT 50.1 Featured Author: Dr. Ruchi Mundeja
Dr. Ruchi Mundeja “Everyone lives in a story,” says Tridib — in one of my all-time favorite lines — in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines. Does our critical work also take succor from stories? How do scholarly output and story,…
JNT 49.3 Featured Author: Dr. Samantha Pinto
Dr. Samantha Pinto I have small children, so I find myself at various natural history and children’s science museums across the country, as well as awash in dinosaur and prehistoric animal factbooks at home. As someone who remains attentive —…
JNT 49.3 Featured Author: Dr. Christine Hume
Dr. Christine Hume I first came across the Nylon Riots while researching parachutes for a short essay I was commissioned to write for an art catalogue years ago. It stayed with me; no one I know had heard of the…
