Author Carolann North

Carolann North

Carolann North is a research associate, lecturer and poet in English literature at Ulster University. Previous publications include 'Sacha Levy’s Unorthodox Kindness: Holby City’s Medicine and Pedagogy, in The Journal of Popular Television (2021), and ‘The Architecture of You: Gender, repression and the home in Chuck Palahniuk’s Diary’ (2014). Her thesis, ‘The Mythology of Us: Chuck Palahniuk and the Sisyphean Plight of the postmodern American absurdist’ has been accepted by Routledge for publication in 2022. She is currently Research Associate for Books Beyond Boundaries NI, an Ulster University project funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. E-mail: c.north1@ulster.ac.uk

‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became

Carolann North

Articles, Issue 10 2020-21

The conflict between racial equality and white anxiety is the central point of interrogation of N.K Jemisin’s 2020 novel, The City We Became, an American sci-fi novel which depicts the literal birth of New York... Read More...

‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became

Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace

The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement

“a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties

“‘Normal People’ Indeed!”: Anne Tyler, Sally Rooney, and the Narrative of Youthful Quirk

Depictions of Shame: White Identity and Cultural Blackness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner

Satire, Symbolism, and the “Working Through” of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

Review: Sawires-Masseli, Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership

Review: Christian Schmidt, Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.

Review: Wickham Clayton, ed, Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

The IAAS's Americanista: An Interview with Catherine Gander (IAAS Chair)

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became