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Mosaic (Winnipeg) back issues
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Introduction.
June 1, 2009... For writers and publishers contending with Google settlements and electronic copyright questions, the issue of "technological reproduction" remains as current, and as in need of critical reflection, as it was when Walter Benjamin wrote "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological...
A return to the scene of the postmodern: Ezra Pound Reading.(Essay)
June 1, 2009... In the summer of 1952, Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Mantell visited St. Elizabeths Hospital in order to persuade Ezra Pound to make a spoken-word LP for their record company. Founded in March of that year, Caedmon Records specialized in recording modern poetry as the verbal content of the...
Invisible voices: archiving sound as sight in Marcel Beyer's Karnau Tapes.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2009... Marcel Beyer's novel The Karnau Tapes begins with a voice breaking the morning silence and a parade of deaf-mutes at a Nazi rally. The narrative perspective is that of Hermann Karnau, a sound engineer charged with bringing the speeches and cries of this assembly even to the deafest ears in...
How to have race without a body: the mass-reproduced voice and modern identity in H.D.'s "two Americans".(Essay)
June 1, 2009...
"The Voice [...] functions as a strange body [...]
which can never be pinned to a definite visual object;
and this changes the whole economy of desire."
--Slavoj Zizek, Enjoy Your Symptom
In 1930, H.D. privately published a short story, "Two Americans," based on her experiences...
Sounding off: performing ritual revolt in Olive Senior's "Meditation on Yellow".(Critical essay)
June 1, 2009... In "Meditation on Yellow," the introductory poem of Gardening in the Tropics, Olive Senior demonstrates the significance of voice in the staging of Afro-Caribbean rituals of revolt. Throughout the entire collection, but in that poem in particular, not only does Senior focus on women who are...