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It’s the End of the World as We Know It

Welcome to the Graduate Literature Associations 2019-2020 issue of Interpretations. Published at the cusp of a difficult time throughout the globe in which we are quarantined and socially isolated, this issue seeks to examine root anxieties and paranoia, and how these feelings are catalysts for intimate and universal reflections. We are proud to present this issue, which showcases the resilience and creativity of our community. This journal has been published by students for decades, and we believe it is crucial that we continue to participate and publish not despite, but because of, these strange times.

—August Braddock, Madison Root, and Rosette Simityan, GLA Co-Chairs, 2019–2020

In this Issue

“Smile Darn Ya Smile”: Xenophobic Anxiety, Femmes Fatales, and Fatalism in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” by Elizabeth Lyons-Beal

“The Heart in Times of the Unknown” by Maureen Spengel

“I Would Like to Report a Murder” by August Braddock

“Didion’s Los Angeles: Dis-Enchanting the California Dream” by Rosette Simityan

“Nature’s Slime and Aggression: Browning, Hopkins, and Tennyson’s Lens of Ecology and Natural Theology” by Rachel Egoian

“Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: Have Human Rights Become a Privilege?” by Teresa Diviachi

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