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Whale in a fishbowl
Wednesday, a whale living in captivity, is inspired by a little girl named Piper to try to reach the sea.
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Attempted Indigenous Erasure and Frontier Gothic in Arrival (2016)
In the process of adapting a written narrative for the silver screen, there is much that can be lost (or gained) in translation. Arrival, Denis Villeneuve’s adaption of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, is no exception. Often analyzed as a work of science fiction, this article argues that understanding Arrival as a work of the frontier gothic renders the attempted erasure of Indigenous presence in the film visible. The frontier gothic elements of Arrival, most prominently the transformation of Chiang’s protagonist, Louise, into a frontier hero(ine), and the looming Montana setting, both evoke and attempt to erase the Indigenous presence in this “frontier”. As a frontier hero, Louise ultimately supersedes the aliens of Arrival, absorbing and appropriating their knowledge and language to save the world (and the superiority of the United States).
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The natural way of things
\"Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are, or how they came to be there with eight other girls. In each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage\"--from author's website.
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An Interview with Nancy Armstrong, Coauthor of The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life
[...]it wasn’t long before I spotted what I was looking for in the recurrent form of the American captivity narrative—the very principle at work in such British novels as Richardson’s Pamela and Clarissa and Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho. [...]American seduction stories (vs. their British counterparts) anticipated a heroine who, like Jemison and Hester Prynne, earns her status as heroine by “going native.” [...]Hillary was a “facilitator” of her husband’s peccadillos, a “crooked” business woman in league with foreign powers, a careless custodian of national security, a policy wonk, and a “low energy” individual to boot. [...]my question: if neither the economically powerful male predator nor his professional female prey is in any real sense the victim of a captivity narrative that each claims to be, then who plays the captive now?
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The birthday party
\"Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar car rolling up the driveway. And as night falls, strangers stalk the houses, unleashing a nightmarish chain of events. Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a deft unraveling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Crafting Factual Narratives: A Genealogy of Miguel de Cervantes's Información de Argel
Despite the advances made in the study of the Información there remain notable gaps in the understanding of the nature of the written document that chronicles Cervantes’s five-year captivity (1575-1580) in Ottoman-protected Algiers. Scholars have made overtures toward understanding the legal-bureaucratic properties of Cervantes’s Información. In what follows I seek to trace the genealogy of Cervantes’ Información with the aim of understanding how such written forms are related to the crafting of “factual” narratives. I argue that a fuller appreciation of the legal-bureaucratic underpinnings of the Información will not only sharpen our reading and understanding of the document but will bring into clearer focus the fact-fiction dialogue it proposes. In referring to the Información as a “factual” document, I use inverted commas not to suggest that it is an outright fictional text, but rather to emphasize the crafting and shaping of narrative—be it rooted in fact or in fiction; and, relatedly, to underscore the fact-fiction interplay the Información poses for readers.
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Challenge and Change in Appalachia
The first and most successful rural social settlement school in the United States lies at the forks of Troublesome Creek in Knott County, Kentucky. Since its founding in 1902 by May Stone and Katherine Pettit, the Hindman Settlement School has received accolades for the quality of its education, health, and community services that have measurably improved the lives of people in the region. Challenge and Change in Appalachia is the story of a groundbreaking center for education that transformed a community. The School's farms and extension work brought modern methods to the area. At the same time, the School encouraged preservation of the region's crafts and music. Today, unique programs for dyslexic children, work in adult education, and cultural heritage activities make the School a model for rural redevelopment.
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Caught between Worlds
The captivity narrative has always been a literary genre associated with America. Joe Snader argues, however, that captivity narratives emerged much earlier in Britain, coinciding with European colonial expansion, the development of anthropology, and the rise of liberal political thought. Stories of Europeans held captive in the Middle East, America, Africa, and Southeast Asia appeared in the British press from the late sixteenth through the late eighteenth centuries, and captivity narratives were frequently featured during the early development of the novel. Until the mid-eighteenth century, British examples of the genre outpaced their American cousins in length, frequency of publication, attention to anthropological detail, and subjective complexity. Using both new and canonical texts, Snader shows that foreign captivity was a favorite topic in eighteenth-century Britain. An adaptable and expansive genre, these narratives used set plots and stereotypes originating in Mediterranean power struggles and relocated in a variety of settings, particularly eastern lands. The narratives' rhetorical strategies and cultural assumptions often grew out of centuries of religious strife and coincided with Europe's early modern military ascendancy.Caught Between Worldspresents a broad, rich, and flexible definition of the captivity narrative, placing the American strain in its proper place within the tradition as a whole. Snader, having assembled the first bibliography of British captivity narratives, analyzes both factual texts and a large body of fictional works, revealing the ways they helped define British identity and challenged Britons to rethink the place of their nation in the larger world.
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Challenge and change in Appalachia
The first and most successful rural social settlement school in the United States lies at the forks of Troublesome Creek in Knott County, Kentucky.Since its founding in 1902 by May Stone and Katherine Pettit, the Hindman Settlement School has received accolades for the quality of its education, health, and community services that have measurably.
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LA FIGURA DE LA COLABORADORA EN LA NARRATIVA CHILENA: EL SÍNDROME DE ESTOCOLMO Y LA ZONA GRIS EN LA VIDA DOBLE DE ARTURO FONTAINE Y CARNE DE PERRA DE FÁTIMA SIME
Although the subject is still taboo, the figure of the hostage who becomes a collaborator to please her captors, with whom she also establishes amorous or erotic relationships, has been transferred to Chilean fiction. The novels La vida doble (2010) by Arturo Fontaine and Carne de perra (2009) by Fátima Sime focus on the collaborative experiences of their protagonists with the Pinochet dictatorship. These texts refer to what has been called \"the Stockholm syndrome\" and to what Primo Levi, the Italian survivor of Auschwitz, calls the \"gray zone,\" describing his experience in the Nazi extermination camp. One of the dangers that victims of extreme oppression face is becoming accomplices in the atrocities perpetrated against others. Such is the case with the protagonists of La vida doble and Carne de perra; both are subjected to physical and psychological torture that culminate in an identification with the oppressor that manifests as Stockholm syndrome. These women end up becoming collaborators or \"gray agents\" with a high physical, psychological and ethical cost.
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