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8 transverse editor’s preface Katie Brennan opens this issue of Transverse with a question: “What do we search for when we travel?” Her subsequent investigation of the quest for authenticity and the desire to recover a lost origin reveals the complexity of what, intuitively, seems a relatively straightforward query. It is only fi tting that an issue devoted to charting “Contemporary Currents” should begin with an essay on travel. For although we are not the mountaineers described in Justin Allec’s piece on military rhetoric in climbing narratives, we comparativists are also travelers. In spite of the consistent identity crises that have rightly kept us reevaluating the nature and pertinence of our discipline, we nevertheless remain united in our commitment to bringing different scholarly traditions into conversation with one another. These papers show how such theoretical voyages can engender fruitful meetings that result not only in new readings, but also in new ways to read. Justin shows us how writing about climbing a mountain can actually determine the experience of standing atop a Himalayan peak. Likewise Jonathan Allan argues that the subversive content of Luisa Valenzuela’s Cola de lagartija can only emerge if the reader adopts a queer methodology; he insists that the meaning of a text is intimately connected to the rubrics according to which we understand it. Jason D’Aoust’s piece touches on many of the same themes, tracing the insidious elision of Evelyn Lau’s private and authorial personae. He also advocates the need for an alternative praxis that focuses a renewed critical gaze on the content of Lau’s fi ction rather than its context. Rachel Freedman likewise offers critical thinking as a potential antidote to the zombifi cation she suggests is plaguing our carefully planned suburban landscapes. Similar considerations resonate in the artistic and creative pieces of MaryAnne Laurico, Marc Foley and Anna Wong. In true comparative style, these pieces bring together a range of topics, traditions, and theoretical vantages. In spite of their differences, however, they share a preoccupation with space and the way we inhabit it. We navigators of the World Wide Web are constantly in motion; even when our bodies are fi rmly planted in front of our computer screens. it is important, on occasion, to take a moment to refl ect on our trajectories and establish what exactly it is we are searching for. As graduate students in one of the most fraught economic times in recent history, when so many are denied the possibility of meaningful work, it is necessary that we recognize the privilege of being able to give our time to projects that interest us. From within the protected space of our various insti-
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