/library/oar/handle/123456789/123374 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:30:18 GMT 2025-12-25T10:30:18Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/13078 Title: Elsewhere and elsewhen : parallel universes and the dangers of interdimensional travel in Land of the Lost Authors: Larsen, Kristine Abstract: While the 1974-76 American television series Land of the Lost is often derided in popular culture circles as having been nothing more than an example of the poorly acted and executed children’s television series of its time, a closer reading demonstrates that there is far more of substance to the show than its legendarily campy stop-motion dinosaurs would suggest. Guest writers for the series included such well-known science and science fiction authors as Ben Bova, Larry Niven, Walter Koenig, and Theodore Sturgeon, who penned hard science fiction plotlines that dealt with cutting-edge topics such as the paradoxes of time travel, antimatter, parallel universes, and the geometry of space-time. This essay investigates numerous instances in which Land of the Lost both accurately portrays the scientific knowledge of its day, and presages more recent developments in the field of time travel. It is argued that Land of the Lost therefore deserves to be reconsidered by academics and science educators interested in popular culture depictions of time travel and related fields of theoretical physics, alongside more often explored works such as Lost and Doctor Who. Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/13078 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/13077 Title: From Sapore to Sapere : the gustatory perception of elsewhere in Calvino’s ‘Under the Jaguar Sun’ Authors: Satarupa Sinha, Roy Abstract: This essay seeks to show how the gustatory perception of “elsewhere” intensifies human sapience of not only the exotic Other, but also of the self. In other words, it argues that Calvino’s desire to communicate with flavours in ‘Under the Jaguar Sun’ can effectively be read as a tacit acknowledgment of the centrality of taste in comprehending the world in its totality. So, how might one employ the sense of taste to describe “elsewhere”—a place of non-belonging, that seductively nebulous region beyond the certainty of absolute knowledge? Is it possible to access ‘elsewhere’ through a purely gustatory perception? Can it be integrated into habitable place? Does it allow itself to be expressed through/represented by ancient and cryptic foodways? By exploring the erotic and linguistic entailments of the culinary sign, this essay shines a light on the systemic complexities of ‘elsewhere’ in the context of Calvino’s short-story concluding that any genuine comprehension of it naturally presupposes the resolution of the eternal and problematic dichotomy between the perceiving subject (self) and the perceived object (the exotic Other). Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/13077 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/13076 Title: ‘It was, we felt, their country’ : childhood elsewhere in Mordecai Richler’s The Street Authors: Leo, Rocco de Abstract: Since the Industrial revolution, historians and critics agree, concepts of time and space have become inappropriate to describe contemporary society: it is a shifting, moving, liquid world, and progresses in technologies only contribute to people’s feeling of being always “elsewhere”. Instantaneity and movement are the constituent referents of our post-modern era, where the loss of certainties leaves human beings with little self-confidence and beliefs. To be foreign in one’s own country is daily routine; but it can also be an incitement to produce stories of condemnation. This article seeks to show how Jewish-Canadian author Mordecai Richler uses his powerful and striking irony to denounce Jews condition in 1940s’ Montreal ghetto, and how the stories collected in The Street describe the “elsewhereness” his community was forced to experience. Nevertheless, the paper will analyse how Richler challenges stereotypes and prejudices, focusing on the spaces of otherness he had experienced in his childhood years and which have made him one of the greatest Canadian voices of 20th century. Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/13076 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/13075 Title: An Africa at every turn : Nathaniel Mackey’s layered landscapes and puns of place Authors: Reder, John Abstract: As that complex of developments that we now call “globalisation” continues to shrink and collapse our sense of planetary Place, serial poet and epistolary novelist Nathaniel Mackey’s works can be read as ongoing critiques of utopian “One World” dogmas. In Mackey’s Cubistic approach to locale, wordplay (as world-play) allows several sites to overlap and inhabit a single node on a trans-historic map. His jerry-rigged journeys ‘put one place/atop another’ so that history doesn’t merely repeat, but engages in counter-point and co-existence. For Mackey, “elsewhere” is an ever-advancing horizon, a site that never stands still for complete nomenclature, and an Africa scattered and felt primarily as a mocking residue and a womb turned inside out. Suitably, a large portion of his poetic energies are spent discovering new ways to merge sites together. In his page-layout itself, a ceaseless enjambment causes the poetic line to be forever ‘round[ing] the bend’. In an interlinked saga that connects over a dozen volumes of poetry and prose, Mackey’s layered landscapes treat Setting like an ‘Inn of Many Monikers’ in which Locale and History are vertically stacked chords, the African scattering-of-tribes is treated as a primal scenario, and linear time is collapsed into a singular Present. Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/13075 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z