M K Walonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 38955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M K Walonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M K |
| FAMILY NAME | Walonen |
| SIGNATURE | WALONEN M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Peter's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1165-0004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The urbanization of conflict theory and Nuruddin Farah’s Past Imperfect trilogy
The Corporation as Imperialist and Antagonist in Contemporary African Fiction
More powerful and influential than some smaller nations, multinational corporations exert a tremendous influence on the functioning of contemporary global society. From as far back as the dawn of capitalist modernity, proto-corporations furthered the ends of empire, bringing massive foreign populations and swathes of territory under economic and political control. This essay analyzes how recent works of sub-Saharan African fiction have conceptual…
An Idea of Africa in “We Are the World”: Decontextualization, Celebrity Savior Complex, Race, and Neoliberal Charity
Debunking the Myth of the Entrepreneur through Narrative in the Contemporary South Asian Novel
The post-Cold War wave of neoliberalism that has swept South Asia has had to be propped up not just by the repressive apparatuses of the region’s states, but through an array of ideological reinforcements as well. The cultural myth of the entrepreneur has served this function as one of the main ideological legitimizations of neoliberal capitalism, attributing meritocracy to cases of individual wealth accumulation and conveying a sense of a societ…
Enrique Mendieta and the Ghosts of Leftism Past: The Aftereffects of Mexico's Dirty War in Élmer Mendoza's Detective Fiction
The continuance of the revolutionary strife of Mexico's dirty war into the present day, both as a legacy and in the form of its survivors, resonates strongly in the work of the novelist Élmer Mendoza. Mendoza's early novel Janis Joplin's Lover uses its protagonist to portray a 1970s Mexico torn between a revolutionary path of collective social amelioration and the corrupt, mercenary self-interest embodied by Mexican narco-traffickers, with the co…
Power, Sex, and Detection in Tarun Tejpal’s The Story of My Assassins
Through its repeated references to William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch Tarun Tejpal’s The Story of My Assassins announces a close textual kinship to this earlier work, one that plays out in terms of a common aesthetic aim of laying bare the naked ugliness of the social forces of power and oppression structuring the societies each represents. This essay argues that while operating in this vein The Story of My Assassins uses elements of the detectiv…
Histories of resistance, political violence, and revolutionary possibility in the neoliberal-era Naxalite novel
In recent years, there has been a marked upswing in fictional renderings of the 50-plus-year-old Maoist Naxalite movement among the authors of India and its sizable diaspora. This essay analyses how these attempts to give narrative-fictional form to the Naxalites, past or present, centrally entail taking a thematic position on the inegalitarian admixture of individualistic consumerism and profit-seeking, state and corporate power, and residual fe…
Violence, Diasporic Transnationalism, and Neo-imperialism in A Brief History of Seven Killings
While globalization is often conceived of in terms of the transnational movement of capital, culture, people, and ideas, in his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James draws attention to a less salubrious form of transnational flow that may also circulate through diasporic networks: that of violence in all of its different social registers, from means of social control to response to the traumas of past violence. This essay argues th…
The Ambivalent Thematics of Commodity Fetishism in Contemporary Latina/O Narrative Fiction
One of the chief cultural dynamics in the contemporary United States is the omnipresent commodity fetishism that drives its consumer society, so it comes as little surprise that this figures prominently in the attempts of much contemporary U.S. Latina/o fiction to come to terms with the social milieu of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century United States. This essay argues that Helena Maria Viramontes’s Miss Clairol, Sandra Cisneros’…
Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West
The figure of the devil – employed time and again by Americans as a means of culturally construing the perceived enemy Other, as W. Scott Poole illustrates in his study Satan in America – appears with great frequency within the corpus of the literature of the American West. This essay focuses on Western regional novels of the late Cold War period (1968-1991), analyzing their manner of using the devil figure to variously challenge and/or reinforce…
Class, identity, and anxiety at the plantation table: British travellers and antebellum Southern foodways
For British travellers who ventured into Southern cities and onto Southern estates in the several decades leading up to the American Civil War, the complex interplay of Southern–British cultural affinities and differences defied the easy classification of their experience as ‘American’. For the visiting Briton, the experience of the South demanded an experience of the brutal economic system which drove it, and yet in Southern culture the guest of…
Power, Patriarchy, and Postcolonial Nationalism in the African Dictator Novel
Power, Patriarchy, and Postcolonial Nationalism in the African Dictator Novel." Journal of the African Literature Association, 6(1), pp. 104–117
Histories of resistance, political violence, and revolutionary possibility in the neoliberal-era Naxalite novel
In recent years, there has been a marked upswing in fictional renderings of the 50-plus-year-old Maoist Naxalite movement among the authors of India and its sizable diaspora. This essay analyses how these attempts to give narrative-fictional form to the Naxalites, past or present, centrally entail taking a thematic position on the inegalitarian admixture of individualistic consumerism and profit-seeking, state and corporate power, and residual fe…
Debunking the Myth of the Entrepreneur through Narrative in the Contemporary South Asian Novel
The post-Cold War wave of neoliberalism that has swept South Asia has had to be propped up not just by the repressive apparatuses of the region’s states, but through an array of ideological reinforcements as well. The cultural myth of the entrepreneur has served this function as one of the main ideological legitimizations of neoliberal capitalism, attributing meritocracy to cases of individual wealth accumulation and conveying a sense of a societ…
Violence, Diasporic Transnationalism, and Neo-imperialism in A Brief History of Seven Killings
While globalization is often conceived of in terms of the transnational movement of capital, culture, people, and ideas, in his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James draws attention to a less salubrious form of transnational flow that may also circulate through diasporic networks: that of violence in all of its different social registers, from means of social control to response to the traumas of past violence. This essay argues th…
Power, Patriarchy, and Postcolonial Nationalism in the African Dictator Novel
Power, Patriarchy, and Postcolonial Nationalism in the African Dictator Novel." Journal of the African Literature Association, 6(1), pp. 104–117
Class, identity, and anxiety at the plantation table: British travellers and antebellum Southern foodways
For British travellers who ventured into Southern cities and onto Southern estates in the several decades leading up to the American Civil War, the complex interplay of Southern–British cultural affinities and differences defied the easy classification of their experience as ‘American’. For the visiting Briton, the experience of the South demanded an experience of the brutal economic system which drove it, and yet in Southern culture the guest of…
Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West
The figure of the devil – employed time and again by Americans as a means of culturally construing the perceived enemy Other, as W. Scott Poole illustrates in his study Satan in America – appears with great frequency within the corpus of the literature of the American West. This essay focuses on Western regional novels of the late Cold War period (1968-1991), analyzing their manner of using the devil figure to variously challenge and/or reinforce…
The Ambivalent Thematics of Commodity Fetishism in Contemporary Latina/O Narrative Fiction
One of the chief cultural dynamics in the contemporary United States is the omnipresent commodity fetishism that drives its consumer society, so it comes as little surprise that this figures prominently in the attempts of much contemporary U.S. Latina/o fiction to come to terms with the social milieu of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century United States. This essay argues that Helena Maria Viramontes’s Miss Clairol, Sandra Cisneros’…
Violence, Diasporic Transnationalism, and Neo-imperialism in A Brief History of Seven Killings
While globalization is often conceived of in terms of the transnational movement of capital, culture, people, and ideas, in his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James draws attention to a less salubrious form of transnational flow that may also circulate through diasporic networks: that of violence in all of its different social registers, from means of social control to response to the traumas of past violence. This essay argues th…
Power, Sex, and Detection in Tarun Tejpal’s The Story of My Assassins
Through its repeated references to William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch Tarun Tejpal’s The Story of My Assassins announces a close textual kinship to this earlier work, one that plays out in terms of a common aesthetic aim of laying bare the naked ugliness of the social forces of power and oppression structuring the societies each represents. This essay argues that while operating in this vein The Story of My Assassins uses elements of the detectiv…
Histories of resistance, political violence, and revolutionary possibility in the neoliberal-era Naxalite novel
In recent years, there has been a marked upswing in fictional renderings of the 50-plus-year-old Maoist Naxalite movement among the authors of India and its sizable diaspora. This essay analyses how these attempts to give narrative-fictional form to the Naxalites, past or present, centrally entail taking a thematic position on the inegalitarian admixture of individualistic consumerism and profit-seeking, state and corporate power, and residual fe…
Debunking the Myth of the Entrepreneur through Narrative in the Contemporary South Asian Novel
The post-Cold War wave of neoliberalism that has swept South Asia has had to be propped up not just by the repressive apparatuses of the region’s states, but through an array of ideological reinforcements as well. The cultural myth of the entrepreneur has served this function as one of the main ideological legitimizations of neoliberal capitalism, attributing meritocracy to cases of individual wealth accumulation and conveying a sense of a societ…
Enrique Mendieta and the Ghosts of Leftism Past: The Aftereffects of Mexico's Dirty War in Élmer Mendoza's Detective Fiction
The continuance of the revolutionary strife of Mexico's dirty war into the present day, both as a legacy and in the form of its survivors, resonates strongly in the work of the novelist Élmer Mendoza. Mendoza's early novel Janis Joplin's Lover uses its protagonist to portray a 1970s Mexico torn between a revolutionary path of collective social amelioration and the corrupt, mercenary self-interest embodied by Mexican narco-traffickers, with the co…
An Idea of Africa in “We Are the World”: Decontextualization, Celebrity Savior Complex, Race, and Neoliberal Charity
The Corporation as Imperialist and Antagonist in Contemporary African Fiction
More powerful and influential than some smaller nations, multinational corporations exert a tremendous influence on the functioning of contemporary global society. From as far back as the dawn of capitalist modernity, proto-corporations furthered the ends of empire, bringing massive foreign populations and swathes of territory under economic and political control. This essay analyzes how recent works of sub-Saharan African fiction have conceptual…
The urbanization of conflict theory and Nuruddin Farah’s Past Imperfect trilogy
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