Scent and Subversion By Jeffrey M. Barnes Review of Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume by Barbara Herman (Lyons Press 2013) The paradox and beauty of perfume is that it operates on multiple levels: the rational and the irrational; the visceral, the cognitive and the aesthetic. Perfume’s power is that it has one foot in the elevated world of language, and one foot in the primal, emotional and dreamlike. — Barbara Herman, Scent and Subversion […]
Zeteo has always attempted to capture the loving, passionate interests of its writers, opening a space for those who seek to question, reveal, connect, and, above all, explore. This time, however, the engagement seems more visceral—and more collaborative. This fall, our writers see meaning as something jointly constructed rather than found or asserted by a single individual. They are proposing that true understanding must be achieved through conversation, disagreement, mutual elaboration. How does this work out in practice, in prose? In […]
Categories: Fall 2013 Issue, Issue Welcomes
Click for PDF. Wouldn’t You Like to Know? Reading Queer Theory in Pop TV By Mitch Kellaway Introduction: Revisiting Xena: Warrior Princess “Are you two . . . lovers?” This question, posed in 2001 in a farcical exposé interview, was directed at the main characters—female fighting duo Xena and Gabrielle—of the long-running action-adventure series Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001).1 Smirking and nudging each other, the pair look back at their inquisitor with “wouldn’t you like to know?” plainly written across […]
Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: bisexual, homosexuality, queer theory, sexual difference, sexuality, Xena: Warrior Princess
Click for pdf. History, Method, and Representation Photo-Elicitation and Lewis Hine’s Photographs of Child Labor in Chester County, South Carolina By James L. Hughes James L. Hughes is a documentary filmmaker, instructor in American Studies and an academic advisor in Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Whatever violence may be done to the letter of their collective experience, the spirit of that experience remains intact and true. It is their notion of themselves, their […]
Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: child labor, Lewis Hine, photo-elicitation
A dialogue on the ethical dilemmas in the reporting and writing of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Sue Ellen Christian and Ann Miles Sue Ellen Christian is an associate professor of journalism at Western Michigan University. Her book, Overcoming Bias: A Journalist’s Guide to Culture and Context was published in 2012 by Holcomb Hathaway. Ann Miles, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist. She is the author of From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration and Living […]
Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: anthropology, ethics, Henrietta Lacks, journalism
Click for PDF. Educating the Young Wizard J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, and Xenophilius Lovegood By Katie Eller Katie Eller is a Curriculum Support Instructor in the Randolph County Schools of North Carolina and a graduate student in Duke University’s Master of Liberal Studies program. Given how many children have read and re-read the Harry Potter series, one may well imagine that in addition to entertainment, readers have received some sort of teaching or teachings from the books. The question […]
Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, virtue ethics, wizards
Click for PDF. Science B By William Eaton William Eaton is the Executive Editor of Zeteo; his explorations appear almost weekly at Montaigbakhtinian.com. Let us begin gently, with, before theory, anecdote. After playing his violin for a range of non-human creatures, Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon, an eighteenth-century musician and philosopher, concluded that spiders are pleased by slow, harmonious melodies and will slide down from their webs in order to listen. Small fish, he believed, will surface with the same intent.[1] Like […]
Categories: Essay, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: bees, love, Pascal, poetry, science
Click for PDF. Illness, Identity, and the Redefinition of Self through Narrative My Experience with Guillain-Barré Syndrome By Adrian Wittenberg Adrian Wittenberg holds an M.A. in humanities and currently resides in San Francisco, California. Introduction The mind and body are linked in an individual’s self-identity. A disease—an abnormal biological condition—thus leads to illness, “[the] innately human experience of symptoms and suffering. . .” which includes the ways that “the sick person and members of the family or wider social network […]
Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: identity, illness, narrative, Oliver Sacks
By Ana Maria Caballero, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 10 November 2013 The Poetry Foundation broadcasts a great public service announcement via its “Poem of the Day”. When you sign up, they send you a daily poem, just like it sounds. The selection is melt-in-your-mouth good. Back in August, I received this gem written by Todd Boss – The World Is in Pencil —not pen. It’s got that same silken dust […]
Categories: ZiR • Tags: haiku, J.D. Salinger, poetry
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