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Crick, crack, crow!
An American crow leaves his large extended family and flies to the nearby farm, where he finds lots of fun and trouble. Includes facts about crows.
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Athletics, Accommodation, and the Labor Question in Ralph Ellison's 'Afternoon'
In his 1940 short story \"Afternoon\" as well as reviews published in the early 1940s, Ralph Ellison contributed to conversations about Black labor in the Jim Crow era via a focus on the burgeoning field of professional sports. In their roleplaying as professional athletes, Ellison's young protagonists Buster and Riley engage in utopian performative acts that conjure an alternative world in which their labor is free of the demands of white patrons. Ellison's short fiction has been almost universally ignored by scholars, but \"Afternoon\" demonstrates Ellison's contribution to a key debate in mid-twentieth century Black life and culture, as well as his anticipation of the labor-based sports activism of recent years.
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As the crow flies
Rhyming text describes the noisy, funny, and sometimes annoying behavior of crows.
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Contemporary Native Fiction
Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. Each chapter is read through the lens of a narrative theory – structuralist narratology, feminist narratology, rhetorical narratology, and unnatural narratology – in order to demonstrate how the formal structure of these narratives engages the political issues raised in the text. Additionally, each chapter shows how the inclusion of Native American/First Nations-authored narratives productively advances the theoretical work project of those narrative theories. This book offers a broad survey of possible means by which narrative theory and critical race theories can productively work together and is key reading for students and researchers working in this area.
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Ka : Dar Oakley in the ruin of Ymr
\"Dar Oakley -- the first Crow in all of Crow history with a name of his own -- was born two thousand years ago. He tells the story of his impossible lives and deaths to a man who has learned his language in this exquisite novel which unravels like a fireside fable, by award-winning author John Crowley. In Ka we see how young Dar Oakley went down into the human underworld long before Julius Caesar came into the Celtic lands, and there got hold of the immortality meant for humans; how he sailed West to America with the Irish monks searching for the Paradise of the Saints; how again and again he went down into the lands of the dead and returned. All these beings inhabit Ka, the realm of Crows, and dwell also in Ymr, the realm where -- as Dar Oakley learns -- what humans think is so, really is so, even though we could have so much more\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Afronauts: On Science Fiction and the Crisis of Possibility
This essay investigates the critical function of science fiction (SF) tropes in SF and non-SF works by and about Africans. It begins with the assertion that works that invoke SF tropes, even if they are not properly speaking SF, can productively be read within the frame of SF. It then analyzes the ways in which writers and visual artists use speculative technological advances to explore the systematic marginalization of the African continent in the world-system. Drawing on Darko Suvin, Raymond Williams, and Fredric Jameson, it illustrates how these works use the cognitive estrangement characteristic of SF to posit a break in established systems of thought; this is, ultimately, a utopian gesture. Works discussed include Deji Bryce Olukotun’s Nigerians in Space, Sony Labou Tansi’s Life and a Half, Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow, Cristina de Middel’s The Afronauts, and Frances Bodomo’s Afronauts.
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Six crows : a fable
An owl helps a farmer and some crows reach a compromise over the rights to the wheat crop.
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'A Low Caste White Man with Lust in His Heart': Race, Deviance, and Criminal Justice in Jim Crow New Orleans
ON THE AFTERNOON OF FEBRUARY 10, 1930, CHARLES GUERAND, a white, off-duty New Orleans policeman, fatally shot fourteen-year-old Hattie McCray, an African American dishwasher, after she rebuffed his sexual advances. For New Orleanians, white and African American alike, the aftermath of this shooting proved to be more shocking than the murder itself. Although Guerand eventually escaped execution, his conviction and incarceration made this case stand apart from the other 2,117 homicide cases in New Orleans between 1920 and 1945. Both national and local observers declared that the verdict heralded the dawn of a new era in race relations. This essay, however, argues that the Guerand verdict reinforced the racial order of Jim Crow New Orleans. For local law enforcers, and especially for Eugene Stanley, the Orleans Parish district attorney who spearheaded the prosecution, the trial and conviction of Charles Guerand was an expression of a more zealous and more unyielding embrace of Jim Crow and a hardening of racial boundaries.
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Little black crow
A boy thinks about the life of a little black crow that he sees, wondering where it goes in the snow, where it sleeps, and whether or not it worries like he does.
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Richard Wright's Personal and Literary Responses to Jim Crowism
Few critics have gone beyond more general discussions of race and racism to discuss the impact of Jim Crowism on Richard Wright's works. This paper examines the impact that Jim Crow laws and practices had on Wright's life and the way he responded to them in his literature by drawing upon Henry Louis Mencken's writing style of using the \"words as a weapon.\" I conclude that Wright's decision to deploy fiction to help stamp out white racism was part of a political response to what he saw as the complex choices facing African Americans. Wright never ceased to struggle against American racism. Twice he chose escape as his mode of resistance; once when he fled the South in his youth, and once when he left America for France. His life and fiction are expressive of his feelings toward Jim Crowism.
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