Issue 54: Mental Health and Wellness

Long overlooked in the Anglophone world of poetry and literature, Native American poetry and spoken word is making a comeback in Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.

With the exploration of conflict resolution within the oppressed individual in a largely white world, Harjo’s poetry works to undermine the White gaze and achieve indigenous empowerment through the ekphrastic form.

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When one thinks of Jane Austen, one would inevitably imagine all of the burlesque comedy, the brazen heroine, and the brilliance of the Regency Era that had been profoundly depicted in her novels. However, unlike its predecessors, Persuasion is relatively bland and dreary with lacklustre writing and mostly uninteresting characters.

The possibility of an old puppy love blossoming sets Persuasion up for a bang but everything else cascades in a despondent fashion instead of a dynamic one.

How is Persuasion different from other Jane Austen novels and is it still worth a read? 

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Izumi Shikibu is Japan’s, and the classical world’s most revered poetess. Her writing is forever immortalized in the anthologies handpicked by royals, scholars and poets alike. But what can we learn from her about loss? What experiences of loss can a courtly lady from the Heian era tell us about this universal suffrage?

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Fight Club is an infamous novel known for its anarchic ideologies, violence and critiques of consumer society. In this week’s article, however, Sean explains why Fight Club is really rooted in the narrator’s daddy issues..

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