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Movable: Narratives of Recovery and Place
Appalachia has been much written about , but its own voices rarely get heard in the national discourse. Instead of speaking about or on behalf of Appalachia, Movable: Narratives of Recovery and Place uses a digital infrastructure (an adapted WordPress framework) to enable grassroots voices from the region to reach a larger audience and connect to each other. It practices a digital mode of community-building through storytelling to envision a shared sense of place. Drawing from discourses and traditions around narrative therapy, creative writing, participatory counter-mapping, and self-advocacy, online database enables persons affected by substance- use disorder in Appalachia and beyond to become part of and assert their place in the conversation about what recovery means to them, their home, and the larger American South.
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Slavery? The Problem and Promise of Mothering in Octavia E. Butler's \Bloodchild\
[...]critics such as Jane Donawerth continue to describe \"Bloodchild\" as a tale of \"exploitation\" (40), while Amanda Thibodeau and Marty Fink offer more ambivalent responses to the tenor of human-alien relationships in Butler's story and maintain that the author depicts a \"parasitic\" partnership (Thibodeau 270) resulting in the \"violent physical invasion\" and \"alien appropriation of human bodies\" (Fink 417, 418).3 This essay brings together the two narratives surrounding \"Bloodchild\"- Butler's assertion that she composed a \"love story\" and her critics' contention that she created a \"story of slavery\" (Butler, Afterword 30)-by proposing that the history of reproductive slavery within the text gives Butler's male protagonist access to the power of maternal love, or what Hortense J. Spillers calls the \" heritage of the mother\" (\"Mama's\" 80), the tradition of nonphallic maternal authority that developed out of black women's experiences during slavery.
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Community boundaries and border crossings
Globalization and transnationalism have reshaped our communities and their borderlines. Communities exceed fixed boundaries, existing instead in the liminal spaces where narratives intersect, clash, or cooperate. These liminal spaces—physical and virtual, local and global—provide opportunities for diversifying discussions on diaspora, cultural hybridity, and ethnic identity. Ethnic women writers make significant contributions to this dialogue regarding the reconfiguration of people and their perimeters. A multigenre and multicultural text, Community Boundaries and Border Crossings explores the novels, short stories, essays, autobiographies, testimonios, plays, poems, and hybrid poetics of established and emerging ethnic women writers. This collection of critical essays highlights the new zones of cultural contact and exchange that are defining the twenty-first century. Each chapter reflects an awareness of cultural changes and challenges, engaging readers in a richly productive conversation concerning the interconnectedness of border crossings and community boundaries.
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FORUM: The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers: Supporting Feminist Recovery Projects in the Digital Age
Despite growing interest in recovering the works of underrepresented communities using digital methods, finding the monetary and human resources necessary to support that work remains difficult, especially for smaller projects championing lesser-known authors. Though each has a distinct meaning, as a group they bring core feminist concerns to bear on \"present-day power relations\" and place emphasis on \"collective and communal consciousness-raising efforts\" (xiii). BUILDING A COLLECTIVE OF PRACTITIONERS The Recovery Hub aims to challenge the systems of power and privilege that have traditionally shaped the digital humanities by nurturing an inclusive community through approaches to technology that are material, embodied, and affective. Practicing anti-racist models of restorative justice, we strive for inclusive representation on our steering committee and advisory board and seek advice from project teams that model a situated approach to technological design, infrastructure, and content, including the Colored Conventions Project, The Winnfred Eaton Archive, and the Black Book Interactive Project.
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