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Grump Groan Growl
Rhythmic text exposes a bad mood on the prowl, and advises the reader not to hide, but to let those feelings be.
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Weeping Bitterly: Death and Grief in the Baldwin Library’s Collection
In autumn 2021, months after the vaccine had proven to be effective in combating the novel coronavirus outbreak and as the Delta variant was picking up speed, I found myself thinking about the catastrophic loss our nation had experienced and was continuing to endure. Mostly, though, my attention kept turning to the losses weathered by our nation’s children. I thought of the grieving families and of the children who suddenly found themselves orphans.The losses were indeed calamitous—an estimated two hundred thousand children in this country are now orphans because of the coronavirus. In fact, as of 2022, the pandemic alone was responsible for a little less than a tenth of all orphans under the age of 18.1 As new variants emerge and as both resistance to and lack of access to vaccines continue to be societal barriers, that number will likely grow.
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Big boys cry
As they walk to his new school, a frightened Levi and his father learn that it is okay for big boys to cry.
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Disruption of Social Settings in Selected Narratives of Genocide
Social settings are what characterise each society hence they vary from one society to the other. If these social settings are disturbed by any force internally or externally, chaos becomes inexorable. Between 1904-1908 at the dawning of the 20th century, a genocide happened where Herero and Nama people of the then German South West Africa (present day Namibia) were nearly completely exterminated by German soldiers. Through the selected narratives of genocide: Parts Unknown (2018) by Zirk Van Den Burg, The Lie of the Land (2017) by David Jasper Utley, The Weeping Graves of Our Ancestors (2017) by Rukee Tjingaete, The Scattering (2016) Lauri Kubuitsile, and Mama Namibia (2013) by Mari Serebrov, this paper explores the disruption of social settings as represented in the selected texts. Founded within the disruption of social settings of the Herero and Nama people are three key issues namely: interference with family set ups; discounting religion, culture and tradition; and violation of revered places. The article concludes that the presence of the Germans brought with it a miserable overhaul to the indigenous people’s lives.
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Crybaby
When Baby cries, her family and neighbors try unsuccessfully to stop her tears and get her back to sleep, but Roy, the old retriever, knows that Baby needs her toy sheep for a good night.
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New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon's novel, The Crying of Lot 49, is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political contexts of the fifties and sixties in America. In the introduction to this collection of original essays, Patrick O'Donnell discusses the background and critical reception of the novel. Further essays by five experts on contemporary literature examine: the novel's 'semiotic regime' or the way in which it organizes signs; the comparison of postmodernist Pynchon and the influential South American writer, Jorge Luis Borges; metaphor in the novel; the novel's narrative strategies; and the novel within the cultural contexts of American Puritanism and the Beat movement. Together, these essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical, and scientific contexts.
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Albert's tree
\"It's finally spring and Albert can't wait to see his favorite tree, but his tree can't seem to stop crying. WAAA WAA WAAAA. What could be the matter?\"--Page [4] of cover.
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Gems Overheard in the Children's Room
(Not to be confused by the boy in the group who, when asked by me if he had any questions about working in the library, asked, \"What do you make?\" I replied, \"Just like your Dad would say about his job ... not nearly enough.\") * Overheard by a mom with a crying little girl upon exiting the children's library: \"She hates being the last girl to leave the party.
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The Emergence of the South African Farm Crime Novel: Socio-Historical Crimes, Personal Crimes, and the Figure of the Dog
Crime fiction is an established and popular literary genre in South Africa that has gained international recognition and acclaim. The genre continues to expand and develop in terms of thematic concerns and experiments in form. One such notable development is the farm crime novel, which extends the tradition of the South African plaasroman. Recent texts, such as Elaine Proctor's The Savage Hour and Karin Brynard's Weeping Waters, quite deliberately set their respective murder mysteries on remote farms, and both novels particularise details of farm life. This article argues that the main concerns of the farm crime novel are, on one level, socio-historical - that is, the crimes perpetrated are the result of relationships to the land, land claims and land re-distribution, and the complex, evolving relationship between landowner and labourer. On another level, true to the conventions of crime fiction, the farm crime novel also explores interpersonal or intimate relationships that result in crimes of passion. Of particular interest is the observation that common to both thematic levels is a profound rendering of the link between human-animal relations and human-human relations. Drawing on Karla Armbruster's work on the cultural significance of narratives about dogs and the need for more just and ethical relationships with animals, the article then demonstrates how this rendering occurs, often, through the figure of the dog. To conclude, some comments are offered on the position of the farm crime novel in a post-apartheid literary landscape.
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Slippery When Wet: Music, Footnotes, and Film in Stephen Graham Jones's Demon Theory
[...]Demon Theory would have us pay attention to and take the measure of footnotes. According to Crater, who did not kill the creature after it killed his wife, the alien needs both salt and love.l He twice likens the creature to the earth buffalo, the last of its species. In The Devil Inside Part I, Hale dismisses \"Indian curses\" and \"disturbed graveyards\" when Egan-invoking Poltergeist, as a footnote is there to point out-asks him if they might be the origin of the demons threatening them (Demon Theory 90). [...]while Demon Theory is happy to deploy all manner of horror conventions across the three films, it invokes the indian burial ground only to leave it out as having a role in them. [...]the note tells us not to believe our eyes, that when it comes to the screen indian all is not as it appears, and with a note to the note lets us know that what holds for the \"Crying Indian\" of the tv ads holds too for the stoic indian played by Assante, attempting \"an Italian-to-Indian shuffle\" (Demon Theory 222) as well.
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