Cover image, volume 1. Chickadee alighting on a stump.

The inaugural issue of the KPU English Department's journal featuring undergraduate essays.

Published: 2024-12-23

From the Editors

From the Editors

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Articles

In the Shadows of Exploitation: A Reading of Extractive Capitalism’s Migrant Workforce in Kate Beaton’s Ducks

Anna Aalhus

1-9

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The Canterbury Tales as a Practical Demonstration of the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Matthew Alain

10-17

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Solace in Solitude: The Relationship Between Isolation and Memory in George Sprott

Elena Barahona

18-23

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The Human Bridge from Slavery to Freedom: Nalo Hopkinson’s Critical Hope for Utopia in Midnight Robber

Kai Barcellos Luna

24-30

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The Many Voices of Home Fire

Ashlyn Figueras

31-35

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An Indigenous Perspective in the Anthropocene: A Spiralic Essay on Time

Ian Frayne

36-45

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Anything but Human: Alienation, Robotization, and Capitalistic Consequence in Burning Vision and R.U.R.

Samantha Halliday

46-52

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The Ghostly Treasure of Rome: A Close Reading of Lavinia in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Brook Lowery

53-59

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Fun, Fresh, and “Deliriously Pop”: Clueless and the Parodical Austen

Carolina Mesquita Rocha

60-72

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To Hear Your Voice: Analyzing Choice and Consent in Jane Austen’s Proposal Scenes

Olivia Peters

73-85

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Speaking of the Dead: Analyzing “Mythology”, “Monsters”, and the Power of Matriarchy on Stolen Land in Darcie Little Badger’s Elatsoe

Jordan Redekop-Jones

86-96

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Batman and Sherlock Holmes: The Skills, Morals, and Villains of Fiction’s Definitive Heroic Detectives

Cole Smuland

97-103

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“Body”: Gender Performativity and Dance as a Performative Art

Swann Tsai

104-108

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Bodily Boundaries: Space, Place, and the Self in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X

Jaydene Van Eaton

109-118

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