vol. 39 borders, place and translation

An International Journal for Literature and the Arts

Editors

Jim Brannon

Veronica Dominguez

Bria Gordon

Cindy Hong

Victor Tran

Crystal Trillo

Faculty Advisor: Katherine McLoone

Table of Contents

Robin Gaitan

Daynté Wordez: A Post-structural and New Historical Examination of Gender Roles in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight                             9

Isaac Garland

The Dullahan in Contemporary Japanese Culture                                                         32

Jessica Gomez

Good Girls Don’t Stray from the Path: A Look at Conceptual and Physical Paths as Borders for Female Characters in Fairy Tales   41

Cindy E. Hong

Cisneros, Chanclas, and The House On Mango Street                                                       53

Kristen Naeem

The Usage of Superstition in the Latin American Diaspora as Presented in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao                 59

Dejah Rodriguez

Analyzing Borders and Places in I Am Not Your Negro: The Intersectionality of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality                         73

Patrick Shaffer

Memento Mori: Orphans, Abjection, and Making the Impossible Possible                     81

Victor Tran

Tlön: The Labyrinth of Mathematics, Geometry, and Quantum Mechanics                     93

Farzana Waseeq

The Delegitimization of Islam in Grounding Orientalism in Literary Tradition   100