Sean Guyne
Biographic Data
| ID | 979361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Guyne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Guyne |
| SIGNATURE | GUYNE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1536-3712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi (review)
Reviewed by: Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi Sean Guynes HIROKI TAKAHASHI Finger Bone Trans. Takami Nieda. Richmond, Virginia. Honford Star. 2023. 128 pages. THAT THE SECOND WORLD WAR—not just the atomic bombs, as kaiju movies emphasize, but the whole imperial enterprise Japan undertook in the first half of the twentieth century—still lingers in popular Japanese imagination some eight decades later, and provokes just as much ambivalence, is made …
The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories
Reviewed by: The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories: Volume 2 ed. James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle Sean Guynes The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories: Volume 2 Ed. James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle Richmond, Virginia. Valancourt. 2022. 328 pages. I DESCRIBED VALANCOURT founders James Jenkins and Ryan Cagle’s first volume of The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories as “a grand guignol of horrific oddities from across the world” (WLT, Winte…
Notes and Correspondence
Whisper by Chang Yu-Ko
Reviewed by: Whisper by Chang Yu-Ko Sean Guynes Chang Yu-Ko Whisper Trans. Roddy Flagg. Handforth, UK. Honford Star. 2021. 294 pages. HORROR FILMS FROM East Asia (especially South Korea and Japan) have impacted the cinematic genre for decades and made big business through both international releases and English-language remakes. East Asian horror fiction, by contrast, is almost nonexistent in the anglophone literary market. This mirrors a larger …
From Afrofuturism to afrofuturism
151 BOOKS IN REVIEW often supported the status quo, reaffirming certain conservative notions of the period—a balancing act that perhaps facilitated its continued popularity with audiences. A key theme across the book is the way in which Serling was forced to walk a fine line between his creative vision and the commercial imperatives of network television, often railing against the advertisers while simultaneously being required to promote their p…
C. T. RwiziScarlet Odyssey
baby daughter, and a daughter to her own mother, whose loving care for her bereft daughter typifies the matrilineal strengths of the Sérère culture on the Senegalese coast, where a shipwreck triggered not only personal, but national, grief. Rosemary Haskell Elon University Nancy Morejón Before a Mirror, the City Trans. David Frye. Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2020. 111 pages. NANCY MOREJÓN HAS LONG been synonymous with Cuban poetry (see W…
Kemal VarolWûf by Dayla Rogers
propaganda minister; and Rudolph Hess, who landed a plane in Scotland in a futile attempt to negotiate a peace in 1941. One appreciates Larson’s attention to the morale of the English people undergoing repeated attacks in the cities. Clementine Churchill became quite concerned with conditions in the shelters, where many chose to sleep when there was a “bombers’ moon.” Finally, there is the Great Man himself, never quite stepping off his mythic pe…
Petina GappahOut of Darkness, Shining Light
depicted in harrowing and heartbreaking ways in Mattawa’s slender volume of poems. Mattawa approaches his subject with delicate lyricism, relying on image and sound rather than direct statement. In this evocative approach, various voices emerge to speak through his verse—refugees, human traffickers, rescue workers—without ever really settling into a set perspective. Images sometimes float freely from their contexts, and as appropriate for the sub…
G. Willow WilsonThe Bird King
communication: "Communication? What communication? I try to go deep, but I'm barely a few centimeters in." However you put it, this sentiment is an effective measure of the reader: while "deep" and "shallow" are riddled with too much bias to communicate much, what a reader wants from poetry is questioned, and, equally, what reactions to poetry are considered legitimate enters into consideration as well. Matt Reeck Brooklyn, New York G. Willow Wil…
Marlon JamesBlack Leopard, Red Wolf
characters who dreamed of migrating to the United States in some way, shape, or form. The Other Americans follows up on those dreams and gives nuance to previously articulated depictions of migration to America. Additionally, although the plotline of the text is fictitious, elements of Lalami’s nonfiction work (e.g., her New York Times essay “What Does It Take to ‘Assimilate’ in America?”) are readily discernible in the story arc she creates thro…
Fiftieth Anniversary Best Essays
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
Her Body and Other Parties
the town, leading to a conflict that seems likely to explode into mass violence at any moment. Grotesque details occasionally hint at a satiric purpose, but ultimately this is a tenser, sadder tale that underscores the horror and despair of post-Soviet life. Ganieva immerses us in a world where corruption and violence are so widespread and legal protections so meaningless that even love at first sight cannot guarantee a happy ending. Social press…
Dissolving Classroom by Melissa Tanaka
Early in the last century, Ayyad, “Westernized , Anglophone, and Protestant to boot,” heads to Sudan to make his fortune, arriving there at a significant moment in that country’s history: Anglo-Egyptian armies have restored Sudan to its more powerful northern neighbor, itself still, of course, very much under British sway, after the revolt of the Mahdi, but imperial control has not yet been fully established; there is room for individual initiati…
Mapping the Interior
the former royal family, the subtext being that their brutal execution in the military coup was the beginning of the descent into the abyss. . . . Hadn’t Assyrians been killed even during the halcyon days of royal rule? Hadn’t Iraqi Jews effectively been expelled from their country overnight after being collectively dispossessed? Hadn’t poverty been widespread? And the regimes that followed—weren’t they soaked in the blood of the Kurds and the Sh…
Four-Color Sound
Onomatopoeia are the representation or imitation in language of sounds from the natural world. They occur in the phonic modality of speech, the written modality, and a third modality combining word and image. The latter is a common device in the sequential art of comic strips and comic books, and is particular to the American tradition of comics. Onomatopoeia diversify the experience of sequential art and have unique signifying properties. Though…
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
Four-Color Sound
Onomatopoeia are the representation or imitation in language of sounds from the natural world. They occur in the phonic modality of speech, the written modality, and a third modality combining word and image. The latter is a common device in the sequential art of comic strips and comic books, and is particular to the American tradition of comics. Onomatopoeia diversify the experience of sequential art and have unique signifying properties. Though…
Fiftieth Anniversary Best Essays
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
Her Body and Other Parties
the town, leading to a conflict that seems likely to explode into mass violence at any moment. Grotesque details occasionally hint at a satiric purpose, but ultimately this is a tenser, sadder tale that underscores the horror and despair of post-Soviet life. Ganieva immerses us in a world where corruption and violence are so widespread and legal protections so meaningless that even love at first sight cannot guarantee a happy ending. Social press…
Dissolving Classroom by Melissa Tanaka
Early in the last century, Ayyad, “Westernized , Anglophone, and Protestant to boot,” heads to Sudan to make his fortune, arriving there at a significant moment in that country’s history: Anglo-Egyptian armies have restored Sudan to its more powerful northern neighbor, itself still, of course, very much under British sway, after the revolt of the Mahdi, but imperial control has not yet been fully established; there is room for individual initiati…
Mapping the Interior
the former royal family, the subtext being that their brutal execution in the military coup was the beginning of the descent into the abyss. . . . Hadn’t Assyrians been killed even during the halcyon days of royal rule? Hadn’t Iraqi Jews effectively been expelled from their country overnight after being collectively dispossessed? Hadn’t poverty been widespread? And the regimes that followed—weren’t they soaked in the blood of the Kurds and the Sh…
G. Willow WilsonThe Bird King
communication: "Communication? What communication? I try to go deep, but I'm barely a few centimeters in." However you put it, this sentiment is an effective measure of the reader: while "deep" and "shallow" are riddled with too much bias to communicate much, what a reader wants from poetry is questioned, and, equally, what reactions to poetry are considered legitimate enters into consideration as well. Matt Reeck Brooklyn, New York G. Willow Wil…
Marlon JamesBlack Leopard, Red Wolf
characters who dreamed of migrating to the United States in some way, shape, or form. The Other Americans follows up on those dreams and gives nuance to previously articulated depictions of migration to America. Additionally, although the plotline of the text is fictitious, elements of Lalami’s nonfiction work (e.g., her New York Times essay “What Does It Take to ‘Assimilate’ in America?”) are readily discernible in the story arc she creates thro…
C. T. RwiziScarlet Odyssey
baby daughter, and a daughter to her own mother, whose loving care for her bereft daughter typifies the matrilineal strengths of the Sérère culture on the Senegalese coast, where a shipwreck triggered not only personal, but national, grief. Rosemary Haskell Elon University Nancy Morejón Before a Mirror, the City Trans. David Frye. Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2020. 111 pages. NANCY MOREJÓN HAS LONG been synonymous with Cuban poetry (see W…
Kemal VarolWûf by Dayla Rogers
propaganda minister; and Rudolph Hess, who landed a plane in Scotland in a futile attempt to negotiate a peace in 1941. One appreciates Larson’s attention to the morale of the English people undergoing repeated attacks in the cities. Clementine Churchill became quite concerned with conditions in the shelters, where many chose to sleep when there was a “bombers’ moon.” Finally, there is the Great Man himself, never quite stepping off his mythic pe…
Petina GappahOut of Darkness, Shining Light
depicted in harrowing and heartbreaking ways in Mattawa’s slender volume of poems. Mattawa approaches his subject with delicate lyricism, relying on image and sound rather than direct statement. In this evocative approach, various voices emerge to speak through his verse—refugees, human traffickers, rescue workers—without ever really settling into a set perspective. Images sometimes float freely from their contexts, and as appropriate for the sub…
From Afrofuturism to afrofuturism
151 BOOKS IN REVIEW often supported the status quo, reaffirming certain conservative notions of the period—a balancing act that perhaps facilitated its continued popularity with audiences. A key theme across the book is the way in which Serling was forced to walk a fine line between his creative vision and the commercial imperatives of network television, often railing against the advertisers while simultaneously being required to promote their p…
The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories
Reviewed by: The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories: Volume 2 ed. James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle Sean Guynes The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories: Volume 2 Ed. James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle Richmond, Virginia. Valancourt. 2022. 328 pages. I DESCRIBED VALANCOURT founders James Jenkins and Ryan Cagle’s first volume of The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories as “a grand guignol of horrific oddities from across the world” (WLT, Winte…
Notes and Correspondence
Whisper by Chang Yu-Ko
Reviewed by: Whisper by Chang Yu-Ko Sean Guynes Chang Yu-Ko Whisper Trans. Roddy Flagg. Handforth, UK. Honford Star. 2021. 294 pages. HORROR FILMS FROM East Asia (especially South Korea and Japan) have impacted the cinematic genre for decades and made big business through both international releases and English-language remakes. East Asian horror fiction, by contrast, is almost nonexistent in the anglophone literary market. This mirrors a larger …
Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi (review)
Reviewed by: Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi Sean Guynes HIROKI TAKAHASHI Finger Bone Trans. Takami Nieda. Richmond, Virginia. Honford Star. 2023. 128 pages. THAT THE SECOND WORLD WAR—not just the atomic bombs, as kaiju movies emphasize, but the whole imperial enterprise Japan undertook in the first half of the twentieth century—still lingers in popular Japanese imagination some eight decades later, and provokes just as much ambivalence, is made …
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