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Aquaman by Peter David
\"Here begins Arthur Curry's recollection of the epic journey that led him to become the mythical superhero we know as Aquaman. Since his dramatic debut in the 1940s, Aquaman has gone from admired hero to legendary icon. Able to breathe in both air and water, the King of the Seven Seas has fought villainy from the deepest depths of the oceans to the outer limits of the galaxy. He is unquestionably one of the greatest heroes the world has ever seen, but his rise to power was not easy.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Colored Conventions Movement
This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism. Contributors: Erica L. Ball, Kabria Baumgartner, Daina Ramey Berry, Joan L. Bryant, Jim Casey, Benjamin Fagan, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Eric Gardner, Andre E. Johnson, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Sarah Lynn Patterson, Carla L. Peterson, Jean Pfaelzer, Selena R. Sanderfer, Derrick R. Spires, Jermaine Thibodeaux, Psyche Williams-Forson, and Jewon Woo. Explore accompanying exhibits and historical records at The Colored Conventions Project website: https://coloredconventions.org/
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Digital Shakespeare Is Neither Good Nor Bad, But Teaching Makes It So
Digital Shakespeare is all around us: mobile apps, YouTube videos, online “participatory cultures,” electronic playtexts, web-based educational materials, even Shakespeare-themed videogames. But how do these resources intersect with the teaching of Shakespeare in the university classroom? In particular, how might digital technologies aid or impede the effective teaching of close reading and critical interpretation in relation to Shakespeare? Rather than discussing the various creative and interactive platforms and media available to the Shakespeare instructor, this essay focuses on recent studies exploring the consequences of using e-readers and other digital devices on individual brains in order to present (1) the demonstrably negative impact of “multitasking” on student learning, (2) the potentially damaging effects of using e-readers and e-texts in the Shakespeare classroom, and (3) suggestions regarding the best practices for teaching students to engage with complex texts like the works of Shakespeare.
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Shaken Manhood: Age, Power, and Masculinity in Shakespeare
The essay explores the predicament of old men in Shakespeare's plays and examines how gender expectations shift in the early modern period as male bodies age. Relying on various historical chronologies of the Ages of Man, the essay establishes the boundaries of old age in the period and then notes that, for Shakespeare, aging occurs within the context of theatrum mundi where Ages are acts and the aging are actors. Thus, age becomes primarily dramatic, having less to do with chronological age than with the performance of certain prescribed parts. Men become old men when they can no longer perform in the roles of younger men. Some men may become effeminized by age; unable to bear the toil and torture regularly expected of masculine bodies, these old men undergo a social and cultural transformation that parallels their physical degeneration, repositioning and refiguring their bodies as significantly less than male.
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Manhood Fresh Bleeding: Shakespeare's Men and the Construction of Masculine Identity
[...]since manhood is inscribed on the body, manhood can be read and re-read. [...]Martius must constantly demonstrate his manliness in order to remain a man. [...]we might look at Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two, where we learn that Tamburlaine is either charmed or an exceptional fighter; he has \"conquered kings / And with his host marched round about the earth,\" yet he is \"Quite void of scars and clear from any wound\" and has \"by the wars lost not a dram of blood\" (3.2.110-13).
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