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Wild berries = Pikaci-m هinisa
Clarence and his grandmother pick wild blueberries and meet ant, spider, and fox in a beautiful woodland landscape.
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Wild Cuisine and Canadianness
Canada is commonly depicted as a rugged wilderness. Defining the characteristics of its food as wild is a contributing factor in this narrative. While there may be some truth to this image, there are also overlooked implications in perpetuating links between the notion of Canada as a nation, and the trope of wilderness as its defining feature. In this article, I draw on visual analysis as well as theory from sensory studies to complicate the concept of “wild” food at the root of discourse on Canadian cuisine. The focus of this analysis is a case study of wild berries on the northeastern coast of Québec, Canada. Throughout the article I quote from interviews that I conducted with Anglophone, Francophone, and Innu locals of Québec’s Lower North Shore. The intimate experiences of residents with the foods that grow in their home do not connect smoothly with representations of wilderness in promotional materials for wild berry products and tourism in the region. In fact, personal accounts of picking, preparing, and eating wild berries complicate master narratives of wild Canadian cuisine, thus enriching this country’s national food culture through complexity. These stories show that wilderness is not a state of purity but a fiction that obscures the multifaceted natural-cultural negotiations among humans, plants, animals, climate, and more in the making of what we call “wild.”
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The berry pickers : a novel
\"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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There are also essays, short stories and poetry from Bert Cardullo (established film critic and professor), Michael O'Connor (a successful script writer), Louis Gallo (editor and professor), Jim Davis (Harvard master's candidate), A. Joachim Glage (attorney and Hollywood writer), Scott Gordon (fiction writer and independent filmmaker), Janet Ruth Heller (president of the Michigan College English Association), and Keith Moser (professor, editor and author of multiple titles).
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News
Thomas Wolfe Society Meeting (May 20-22, 2016; Asheville, North Carolina):The Society held its thirty-eighth annual meeting at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel, beginning with the Board of Directors meeting on Friday morning. The Thomas Wolfe Prize for 2016 was awarded to North Carolina native Jill McCorkle. Winner of the 2016 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize from the North Carolina Writers' Network was Alli Marshall of Asheville for her short story, \"Catching Out.\" The Western North Carolina Historical Association has presented the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award annually since 1955. IN MEMORIAM . . . 2016; LITERARY NEWS FOR 2016.
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THE ONE WHO FEEDS US ALL: OLD FARMERS AND FARM FICTION AMID THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
[...]family farmers are still responsible for approximately 94% of all US farms, the Department of Agriculture reports. Small-holders suffer the crises. [...]the farmers we mainly cannot see are the old people left behind in the countryside, on a planet that is frying and drowning at the same time. Since 2000, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the USDA, characterizes 20% of farms (400,000) as \"retirement farms,\" as if they were unproductive. What the getting-away Bildungsromane miss is the hard work and loneliness the children leave behind for their aging parents. Because farm fiction rarely features old people as main characters, we know less than we should about their subjective sorrow. [...]if you're old and have been doing this all your life, you can't see any alternatives to foreclosure, or loss of livelihood and identity and national relevance. Because old farmers have seen the ups and downs of the agrarian economy, sympathetic farm novelists do sometimes use them as witnesses testifying to historical change.
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Bibliography
Spanish translation of Look Homeward, Angel, originally published in 1983. ·-. \"Tuesday History: Bringing the Old Kentucky Home to Black Mountain College.\" \"Tuesday History: 'We are born alone.'\" Mountain Xpress, online 10 Oct. 2017. ·Fitts, Dudley.
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The ecology of memory
Berry's notion of memory has rich theological and literary roots, which reach to Augustine and T. S. Eliot. After a brief tour through Augustine's theological view of memory and Eliot's development of this in The Four Quartets, I examine Berry's short story \"Pray without Ceasing\" to demonstrate how this theology works out in the form of his story, enabling his characters to understand and love the whole pattern of which they are a part. By understanding how Berry incorporates this ancient Christian view of memory in the structure of his narration, we can see how memory comprises an integral part of his culturally embattled agrarian and ecological vision.
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INTRODUCTION
By August 2013,1 finished writing, The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels, which will be released with McFarland in June 2014. [...]a few days ago, or January 2014, I finished writing a new academic book, Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Femininity and Masculinity, which is currently under review by Columbia University Press. Since it is probably inevitable that I will begin writing longer fiction for publication after I finish the next academic project, I am once again taking a step in this direction by including another short story in this issue.
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