Daniel Mckay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Mckay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckay |
| SIGNATURE | MCKAY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2595-4949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Unfillable Stomach
The effects of settler colonialism on Indigenous communities manifest in psychological issues that are traceable to not one but several historical traumas, including but not limited to those beyond living memory. The "decolonial turn" of trauma theory has tended to accept these assertions in order to underpin scholarly readings of literature by Native American authors. My article close reads Louise Erdrich's 2012 novel The Round House, the narrat…
Evolving Interpretations of the Office of Australian Governor-General as a Constitutional Link to the British Empire, 1890–1931
The framing and interpretation of the provisions in the Australian Constitution which established the office of Governor-General only make sense when fully situated within an imperial context. The Australian Constitution was drafted by British colonists loyal to the Crown who prized an ongoing connection with Britain. Interpretation of the constitutional office of Governor-General and its conventions was therefore sensitive to evolving relations …
Vengeance Unbound: Henning Mankell's The Man from Beijing
The Man from Beijing depicts ethnic Chinese workers on the US transcontinental railroad, a literary development that challenges the linguistic boundaries nominally associated with Asian American Studies. Of equal importance, I argue, is the way Mankell expands the cartography of Nordic Noir to encompass capitalism's old-new frontiers in China (PRC
Other ways to treat an animal: Natural horsemanship and the ethnic other
Intellectual convergences between postcolonial studies, ethnicity studies and human–animal studies (HAS) hold the potential to go beyond “traditional” models of rehumanizing a formerly “inhuman” non-white subject. This article teases out the ways in which historical constructions of race and the non-human animal mutually inform one another, paying particular attention to how horses and the ethnic Other, through real-life or narrative associations…
The Hot Sun and the Mad Moon: Hiroshima in South African Literature
In 1926 a new shipping route was established between Durban and Osaka, on which Laurens van der Post and William Plomer, fresh from their collaboration as writers for the literary magazine Voorslag, embarked as privileged passengers. The opportunity to reside in Japan would exercise a profound influence over the literary output of both figures, though in considerably different ways. This article revisits the 1926 sojourn in Japan as a formative m…
The Right Stuff: The Kamikaze Pilot in Kerri Sakamoto'sOne Hundred Million Heartsand Ruth Ozeki'sA Tale for the Time Being
Over the course of the last decade, novelists based in the United States and Canada have offered the first serious depictions of kamikaze pilots to appear in Anglophone literary writing. Hitherto, this topic was confined to the medium of pulp fiction, comic books, war films, and the leftover propaganda materials of World War II. Literature and area studies scholars likewise neglected to explore the topic although a rising number of translated doc…
Don’t Hate the British: O ld B oer W isdom in T an T wan E ng’s T he G arden of E vening M ists
South African patrols on ‘search and destroy’ missions operate with impunity far across the border into Angola. The ‘troopies,’ young border soldiers that patrol the bush land in armored vehicles r
Introduction: A Caveat on Caveats
In this introduction to part 4 of the Common Knowledge symposium "Peace by Other Means," the journal's editor assesses the argument made by Peace, the spokesperson of Erasmus in his Querela Pacis (1521), that the desire to impute and avenge wrongs against oneself is insatiable and at the root of both individual and social enmities. He notes that, in a symposium about how to resolve and prevent enmity, most contributions have to date expressed cav…
The Poetics of Apology
This article surveys the Far East prisoner of war novel from its inception in English public school narratives and racially inflected character profiles to the more critically engaged publications of the last two decades. During the latter period, linear reconstructions of imprisonment, analogous institutional paradigms, and authors' own memories of captivity have gradually declined in influence. Although not wholly absent, their place has been t…
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Tick: The Fizzles, Misfires, and Timed Delays of Manhattan Project Novels
Novelizations of the story of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos have been in publication almost from the moment when news of the Project first broke. In this article I survey these productions, from their earliest beginnings in the writings of Upton Sinclair to their latest manifestation in Nora Gallagher’s novel Changing Light (2007). The best way in which to read these works is to locate them within a larger cultural trend, prevalent in the U…
Ghosts in the Shell: On South Africa, the USA and Japan
This article surveys American literary responses to the rise of Japan as an economic power during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, and examines how these responses were anticipated in the writings of the South African author Laurens van der Post. Paying particular attention to van der Post’s autobiography, Yet Being Someone Other (1982), I suggest that the author’s formative experiences aboard a Japanese trading vessel in 1926, …
The Japanese tourist survival guide: Undead tropes of the Pacific War in contemporary New Zealand literature
During the 1980s Japanese corporations acquired a strong foothold in the American market, prompting media commentators to speculate that American society was being undermined by an encroaching Japanese “takeover”. Employing a comparative approach, I place New Zealand source material in conversation with an American cultural context in order to expose the mobility and malleability of Japanophobic discourses. New Zealand culture provides a basis fo…
Captive Memories
Meal‐induced increase in plasma gastrin immunoreactivity in the rhesus monkey ( Macaca mulatta )
The hormonal response to food intake in rodents, dogs, and humans involves gastrin and cholecystokinin, structurally related peptides present in plasma, gut, and brain. In order to determine the time course of plasma gastrin response in a nonhuman primate, six overnight‐fasted adult male rhesus monkeys were offered a meal of bananas (11g) and peanut butter (1 Tbsp) or a fresh water bottle in a crossover design. All animals completely consumed the…
The Right Stuff: The Kamikaze Pilot in Kerri Sakamoto'sOne Hundred Million Heartsand Ruth Ozeki'sA Tale for the Time Being
Over the course of the last decade, novelists based in the United States and Canada have offered the first serious depictions of kamikaze pilots to appear in Anglophone literary writing. Hitherto, this topic was confined to the medium of pulp fiction, comic books, war films, and the leftover propaganda materials of World War II. Literature and area studies scholars likewise neglected to explore the topic although a rising number of translated doc…
Introduction: A Caveat on Caveats
In this introduction to part 4 of the Common Knowledge symposium "Peace by Other Means," the journal's editor assesses the argument made by Peace, the spokesperson of Erasmus in his Querela Pacis (1521), that the desire to impute and avenge wrongs against oneself is insatiable and at the root of both individual and social enmities. He notes that, in a symposium about how to resolve and prevent enmity, most contributions have to date expressed cav…
Other ways to treat an animal: Natural horsemanship and the ethnic other
Intellectual convergences between postcolonial studies, ethnicity studies and human–animal studies (HAS) hold the potential to go beyond “traditional” models of rehumanizing a formerly “inhuman” non-white subject. This article teases out the ways in which historical constructions of race and the non-human animal mutually inform one another, paying particular attention to how horses and the ethnic Other, through real-life or narrative associations…
Ghosts in the Shell: On South Africa, the USA and Japan
This article surveys American literary responses to the rise of Japan as an economic power during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, and examines how these responses were anticipated in the writings of the South African author Laurens van der Post. Paying particular attention to van der Post’s autobiography, Yet Being Someone Other (1982), I suggest that the author’s formative experiences aboard a Japanese trading vessel in 1926, …
The Japanese tourist survival guide: Undead tropes of the Pacific War in contemporary New Zealand literature
During the 1980s Japanese corporations acquired a strong foothold in the American market, prompting media commentators to speculate that American society was being undermined by an encroaching Japanese “takeover”. Employing a comparative approach, I place New Zealand source material in conversation with an American cultural context in order to expose the mobility and malleability of Japanophobic discourses. New Zealand culture provides a basis fo…
Captive Memories
Meal‐induced increase in plasma gastrin immunoreactivity in the rhesus monkey ( Macaca mulatta )
The hormonal response to food intake in rodents, dogs, and humans involves gastrin and cholecystokinin, structurally related peptides present in plasma, gut, and brain. In order to determine the time course of plasma gastrin response in a nonhuman primate, six overnight‐fasted adult male rhesus monkeys were offered a meal of bananas (11g) and peanut butter (1 Tbsp) or a fresh water bottle in a crossover design. All animals completely consumed the…
Ghosts in the Shell: On South Africa, the USA and Japan
This article surveys American literary responses to the rise of Japan as an economic power during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, and examines how these responses were anticipated in the writings of the South African author Laurens van der Post. Paying particular attention to van der Post’s autobiography, Yet Being Someone Other (1982), I suggest that the author’s formative experiences aboard a Japanese trading vessel in 1926, …
The Japanese tourist survival guide: Undead tropes of the Pacific War in contemporary New Zealand literature
During the 1980s Japanese corporations acquired a strong foothold in the American market, prompting media commentators to speculate that American society was being undermined by an encroaching Japanese “takeover”. Employing a comparative approach, I place New Zealand source material in conversation with an American cultural context in order to expose the mobility and malleability of Japanophobic discourses. New Zealand culture provides a basis fo…
Captive Memories
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Tick: The Fizzles, Misfires, and Timed Delays of Manhattan Project Novels
Novelizations of the story of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos have been in publication almost from the moment when news of the Project first broke. In this article I survey these productions, from their earliest beginnings in the writings of Upton Sinclair to their latest manifestation in Nora Gallagher’s novel Changing Light (2007). The best way in which to read these works is to locate them within a larger cultural trend, prevalent in the U…
Don’t Hate the British: O ld B oer W isdom in T an T wan E ng’s T he G arden of E vening M ists
South African patrols on ‘search and destroy’ missions operate with impunity far across the border into Angola. The ‘troopies,’ young border soldiers that patrol the bush land in armored vehicles r
Introduction: A Caveat on Caveats
In this introduction to part 4 of the Common Knowledge symposium "Peace by Other Means," the journal's editor assesses the argument made by Peace, the spokesperson of Erasmus in his Querela Pacis (1521), that the desire to impute and avenge wrongs against oneself is insatiable and at the root of both individual and social enmities. He notes that, in a symposium about how to resolve and prevent enmity, most contributions have to date expressed cav…
The Poetics of Apology
This article surveys the Far East prisoner of war novel from its inception in English public school narratives and racially inflected character profiles to the more critically engaged publications of the last two decades. During the latter period, linear reconstructions of imprisonment, analogous institutional paradigms, and authors' own memories of captivity have gradually declined in influence. Although not wholly absent, their place has been t…
The Right Stuff: The Kamikaze Pilot in Kerri Sakamoto'sOne Hundred Million Heartsand Ruth Ozeki'sA Tale for the Time Being
Over the course of the last decade, novelists based in the United States and Canada have offered the first serious depictions of kamikaze pilots to appear in Anglophone literary writing. Hitherto, this topic was confined to the medium of pulp fiction, comic books, war films, and the leftover propaganda materials of World War II. Literature and area studies scholars likewise neglected to explore the topic although a rising number of translated doc…
The Hot Sun and the Mad Moon: Hiroshima in South African Literature
In 1926 a new shipping route was established between Durban and Osaka, on which Laurens van der Post and William Plomer, fresh from their collaboration as writers for the literary magazine Voorslag, embarked as privileged passengers. The opportunity to reside in Japan would exercise a profound influence over the literary output of both figures, though in considerably different ways. This article revisits the 1926 sojourn in Japan as a formative m…
Other ways to treat an animal: Natural horsemanship and the ethnic other
Intellectual convergences between postcolonial studies, ethnicity studies and human–animal studies (HAS) hold the potential to go beyond “traditional” models of rehumanizing a formerly “inhuman” non-white subject. This article teases out the ways in which historical constructions of race and the non-human animal mutually inform one another, paying particular attention to how horses and the ethnic Other, through real-life or narrative associations…
Vengeance Unbound: Henning Mankell's The Man from Beijing
The Man from Beijing depicts ethnic Chinese workers on the US transcontinental railroad, a literary development that challenges the linguistic boundaries nominally associated with Asian American Studies. Of equal importance, I argue, is the way Mankell expands the cartography of Nordic Noir to encompass capitalism's old-new frontiers in China (PRC
Evolving Interpretations of the Office of Australian Governor-General as a Constitutional Link to the British Empire, 1890–1931
The framing and interpretation of the provisions in the Australian Constitution which established the office of Governor-General only make sense when fully situated within an imperial context. The Australian Constitution was drafted by British colonists loyal to the Crown who prized an ongoing connection with Britain. Interpretation of the constitutional office of Governor-General and its conventions was therefore sensitive to evolving relations …
The Unfillable Stomach
The effects of settler colonialism on Indigenous communities manifest in psychological issues that are traceable to not one but several historical traumas, including but not limited to those beyond living memory. The "decolonial turn" of trauma theory has tended to accept these assertions in order to underpin scholarly readings of literature by Native American authors. My article close reads Louise Erdrich's 2012 novel The Round House, the narrat…
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