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NEBULA 3.4, December 2006/January 2007

One can never adequately describe the sensation that prevails when an insight is being discovered, shared, exchanged, needless to say it is a sensation belonging to a higher nature, as Emerson might have said.  As I was going through the final content of this issue I often felt captivated by the ideas and arguments advanced below, to the extent that some of them continue to haunt my mind.  Whether it was Keramati's giant of a hypothesis in which oil reserves around the world veritably become a means of studying modern military histories, or the haunting analysis of Steele's Abu Ghraib prison guards, or the utterly confusing nature of time travel that Gendler presents ... In every contribution there was a new world to be explored; in Wright's article it was a case of reverse mimesis, while Cootey's first person narrator writes with a forceful vision, almost a delirium, in which Conrad's Heart of Darkness communicates beyond the narrative, in a meta narrative unfolding in the reader's mind. From Adesoji we learn that not all the world's national media invariably becomes an accomplice with the governments of those nations, that sometimes the media, in a post-globalisation world, can act as a powerful force in achieving good instead of hindering it. Rebecca Beirne's contribution discusses how the media can present images that are contradictory to the revolutionary rhetoric they imply -- how on the one hand a narrative that seeks to de-normalize and de-marginalize, can still unwittingly enforce prevalent and misleading discourses.  In Moses Ayeomoni's contribution we learn about the use of English - the mother of all colonial languages - among Yoruba-speaking Nigerians. So here it is, the last issue of 2006, and the close to a third wonderful year of Nebula. See you soon in 2007 with issue 4.1.  Thank you to all the contributors and the readers for their endless encouragement and support.

Samar Habib
Editor

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Click HERE to read about this issue's contributors and their work.

Rebecca Beirne. “Fashioning The L Word." 1-37

Abimbola O. Adesoji. “Globalization of the media and the Challenges of Democratisation in Nigeria.” 38-50

Habiba Hadziavdic. "Images of Gypsies, a German Case: Gilad Margalit." 51-61

Warren Steele. “Strange Fruit: American Culture and the Remaking of Iraqi Males at Abu Ghraib.” 62-74

Mary Ellen Wright. “Adrian Hall's Adaptations of In the Belly of the Beast.” 75-88

Yashar Keramati. “The Odd Couple: Iran and Venezuela's Union Through anti-U.S. Imperialism and Oil.” 89-99

Yashar Keramati. “One Theocrat’s Puppet Democracy, One Nation's Democratic Deprivation.” 100-110

Jason Cootey. “I’ve Looked Deep into the Darkness.” 111-141

Jason Gendler. “Primer : The Perils and Paradoxes of Restricted Time Travel Narration.” 142-160

Moses Omoniyi Ayeomoni. “Language Use in a Yoruba Speech Community.” 161-172


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