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This paper seeks to explore the resistance strategies that women characters use in engaging with oppressive systems in their societies in selected African texts. Women's choices in marriage and sexuality are often suppressed in public discourses. Women often have to contend with marginalization, exploitation, powerlessness, and forced marriages. This paper examines Alifa Rifaat's collection of short stories, Distant View of a Minaret, and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and argues that these writers present women who, faced with difficult situations, register their protest through silence, murder, or resort to a closeted alternate sexuality. These are not merely survival strategies but are also protest making ventures. One major conclusion is the important role writers play in giving voice to these protests. However, it is necessary to indicate that the ephemeral nature of these protest movements in the face of the toxic gender dynamics that prevail in the texts is a testament to the need for more sustained activism and advocacy for equal gender rights.

Arthur is an OAP, hiding out from the world in his grotty high-rise. He'd move – if it weren't for his missing teenage son. Today is Michael's 18th birthday – will he finally come home? But the person Arthur finally lets in turns out to be someone else entirely. This boy is seeking refuge from The Fights – the raging riots sparked years ago by a notorious computer game.

Different from military ruled Argentina, however, Chinese authorities have sought to regulate not only the bodies of women but of men as well.\\n Forever concerned with the propagation of its image to the outside world, China has strategically moved to turn its acceptance of aid from countries like Japan and Taiwan into a diplomatic move to soften its reputation of strict control. Large groups are seeking legal representation in a battle to sue state representatives for malicious wrongdoing.27 At first glance, however, it seems unlikely that a legal system in which the Communist Party controls the courts will produce a favorable ruling as many argue that the idea of individual rights and state responsibility is a beguiling fiction.

From Wishing Chair Productions’ world-class puppet shows and the famous Civil Rights Room, from the Salon@615 reading series to the annual Southern Festival of Books, the Nashville Public Library is an invaluable, year-round gateway to the city’s history, especially for its literary and musical communities. The library’s Civil Rights Training program has received national attention for its work with the Metro Nashville Police Department—a groundbreaking engagement with new recruits, exposing them to the history and significance of Nashville’s role in the civil rights movement—and has since extended its work to include everything from kindergarten students and family reunions to corporate and nonprofit boards that are serious about their commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. According to the NPL, the Civil Rights Room and special collections average more than 12,500 visitors per year, with 350 programs in 2019. Program coordinator Liz Atack leads a team of educators who conduct professional development workshops with childcare providers on best practices for developing literacy skills, including storytime presentations and art activities that reinforce language and reading skills.

Published in 1938 as part of her book U.S. 1, \"The Book of the Dead\" is based on Rukeyser's investigation, performed with her friend the photographer Nancy Naumberg, of the notorious 1930s Hawk's Nest disaster, which was for many years the largest industrial \"accident\" in US history, in which upwards of 2,000 workers contracted silicosis, a fatal lung disease, while digging a water diversion tunnel.1 Rukeyser's poem is what might be called a form of documentary modernism -an \"experimental fusion of poetry and non-literary languages\" drawn from journalistic accounts, transcripts of Congressional hearings and interviews, excerpts of letters, even stock market accounts.\\n Wright and Rosskam's book, like much of Wright's fiction, tends to give short shrift to African American women, and their role in black history and activism.

This study is an examination of how selected Nigerian novelists have, through the literary imagination, used protest as a mode of expression necessary for assessing the relationship between art, ideology and social consciousness. This study examines the relationship of these three elements within the context of selected Nigerian novels dealing with a specific society struggling within difficult economic and socio-political circumstances. The analytical focus is on six primary texts, namely Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987); Kole Omotoso’s Just Before Dawn (1988); Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra (1982); Festus Iyayi’s Violence (1979); Okey Ndibe’s Arrows of Rain (2000) and Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel (2002). The choice of these texts is informed by the fact that their thematic preoccupations and structural concerns are broadly similar. In these texts, the selected writers have attempted to chart a course of communal awareness and social reconstruction as they show concern for the socio-political issues prevalent in Nigeria. In essence, the study takes a close look at the nature of protest, its manifestation in literature and the novel, and the way in which the literary imagination transforms it to suit the artistic temper of the individual authors while at the same time retaining its essence as a means of drawing attention to inequity and injustice. A cursory examination of the texts selected for this study underscores their reading as protest texts. Anthills of the Savannah, Just Before Dawn, Destination Biafra, Violence, Arrows of Rain and Waiting for an Angel. To varying extents, these texts show that the events that constitute the national narrative are all subject to contention because they are informed by the conflicting motivations of different characters, distorted by a variety of perspectives and shaped by the dynamics of an ever-evolving culture, as well as by the biases and objectives of the writers themselves. The study concludes that, in the evaluation of social protest and the literary imagination in the Nigerian novel, it is important to analyse the relativity or ideological pursuits of the selected writers. The selected writers in this study appear to be shaped by the prevailing Nigerian socio-political imbalance and its resultant harshness. This in turn is expressed in their individual reactions to these perceived socio-political problems. The recurrent motif in all the texts in this study is what could be regarded as the most recent state of consciousness in Nigerian fiction; namely, an ideological stance which no longer contents itself with either blaming outsiders or by wallowing in a literature of despair and disillusionment.

March 15--An unlikely group of budding authors is telling fresh stories about Martin Luther King Jr., restaurant sit-ins and protests against segregation in Atlanta: charter school students in grades five through eight.