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Colonialism in Madagascar:When a Narcissist, a Dreamer, a Harlot, and a Hypochondriac Walk into the African “Wilderness”
By Nuala Caomhánach, Doctoral Candidate, New York University Featured image by Sam Nystrom Costales DreamWorks Animation’s 2005 film, Madagascar, is the story of four animal BFFs that leave Central Park Zoo in Manhattan only to get re-captured at Grand Central Station and “deported” back to the “wild.” The film’s four mammal protagonists are then loaded…
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Cad Bane, Westerns, and Terrifying Little Aliens: A Conversation with The Book of Boba Fett’s Dorian Kingi
Featured image by Sam Nystrom-Costales Danielle Sanchez, Executive Editor and Co-Founder of Historifans and Assistant Professor of History at Colorado College, attended Colorado Springs Comic Con in August 2022. In addition to geeking out over all of the nostalgia, fan art, cosplayers, and merch, she (and Cruz, her 10 year old son) had the opportunity…
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Tanuki in Popular Discourse: Cholera, COVID-19, and the Liminal Space Between the Supernatural and Science
By Kathryn M. Tanaka, Associate Professor at the University of Hyogo Featured image by Sam Nystrom Costales Over the past few days, there have been a number of articles linking raccoon dogs in a live animal, or wet, market in Wuhan with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic.1 The raccoon dogs at the heart…
