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Demon in the hole : a thriller
The demon has waited a long time. Hidden away in a location so secret, even the President doesn't know about it, the demon has outlasted its creators and its keepers and become lost to human memory. But now it has been found--and it will soon bring mankind to the brink of nuclear Armageddon. Douglas Wright is an unemployed aerospace engineer. Broke, divorced, homeless, and bitter, he has no idea where to turn next. Two very different and powerful men, both utterly ruthless, are ready to tell him. Ben Savitch, a former wheat farmer turned bank robber and anarchist, offers Wright a million and a half dollars to re-awaken the demon. The other man, known only as Mr. Black, is the enigmatic head of a rogue agency within Homeland Security. Wright thinks both men are insane. He would like to collect the money being offered to him, but he would also like to avoid starting World War III, and the cost of disobeying either of his new masters is death... -- Adapted from page [4] cover.
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They are not all wolves: menstruation, young adult fiction and nuancing the teenage boy
Before the 2020 publication of Elana K. Arnold’s Red Hood and Sarah Cuthew’s Blood Moon, Judy Blume’s 1970 novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which ends with the heroine praising God for blessing her with menarche, was one of the only young adult novels to feature menstruation as a central theme. This paper opens with a brief overview of recent English and American menstrual activism and a discussion of scholarly considerations of the menstrual cycle in literature. Then, through a close comparative reading of works by Arnold and Cuthew, I argue that both novels fulfil their feminist agendas by representing the stigmatised experience of the physicality of menses, and by depicting young women negotiating instances of the kinds of misogyny that punctuate contemporary Western culture. At the same time, the novels share an overly simplistic, binarised attitude towards male adolescents. That aspect highlights the need for the development of affirmative feminist boys studies. Such progress would foster more nuanced literary depictions of young males—and address the challenges of building a more equitable world, thereby responding to some of the motivating concerns of Red Hood and Blood Moon.
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Homeless Blogs as Travelogues. Travel as a Struggle for Recognition and Emplacement
Applying Clifford’s broad concept of travel, I discuss American homeless blogs as autobiographical travel writing serving the struggle for recognition of the street people. The analysed travelogues are hitchhiker Ruth Rader’s Ruthie in the Sky blog and self-made woman Brianna Karp’s Girl’s Guide to Homelessness – a memoir published on the basis of the blog bearing the same title. In the travelogues I analyse the characteristic features of a personal travel writing: travel of the self, advice for future travelers, geographic information and portrayal of society in which the travel is undertaken. I claim that homeless bloggers recounting their stories of otherness and displacement in the US contribute to (re)constructing American cultural identity their personal Self, just like many other American travelers before. Additionally, homeless blogging about homelessness is shown as the process of emplacement (Casey) – the bloggers’ attempt of making themselves at home in the world.
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Despertar el polvo
Chano, a man beset by the misfortunes of a life of crime and corruption, uses his neighborhood streets as a stage, wandering invisibly. An unfortunate event and the compassion of a past relationship awaken Chano's protective instincts to visibly confront the street.
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Volume Five: The Dissolution
This is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature.The Plum in the Golden Vaseor,Chin P'ing Meiis an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. The novel, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form-not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.
This complete and annotated translation aims to faithfully represent and elucidate all the rhetorical features of the original in its most authentic form and thereby enable the Western reader to appreciate this Chinese masterpiece at its true worth.
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Children of God
Johnny (Johnny Ferro) is an art student in Nassau whose technique is perfect, but he's creatively blocked. His teacher sends him off to the rural island of Eleuthera where he meets Romeo (Stephen Tyrone Williams), a hot musician. They begin a clumsy dance of attraction and romance. Romeo has a fiancé and is identified as straight, but he's been known to play with the boys on the side secretly. The Bahamas are bound by religious traditions that discourage homosexuality and end up forcing gay men into the closet. Lena is a pastor's wife. Her husband demonizes homosexuality to further his career, yet he's on the DL as well. When Lena discovers that her husband has infected her with VD, he accuses her of infidelities. These characters are all bound together in this intense drama of love, family and secrets.
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Utopia and Apocalypse in Samuel Delany's \The Mad Man\
In \"The Mad Man\" (1994), which is concerned, among many other things, with the sexual encounters of a young black male philosophy PhD candidate with black, white, and Latino homeless men, Samuel Delany explores the ambiguous relation between the erotics of urban life and postmodern capitalism. To an important extent, the novel suggests, certain modes of urban queer eroticism might be seen as utopian alternatives to dominant modes of late capitalist sociality. This tendency of the novel is, however, offset by its countervailing (though less emphatic) attention to the antisocial, anti-utopian elements within both sexual desire and the contemporary urban environment-elements that the novel collects together under the sign of apocalypse. Taken together, the novel's deployment of utopian and apocalyptic elements provides a powerfully dialectical account of the intertwined operations of commodity culture and eroticism within the postmodern metropolitan context.
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Can a Hobo Share a Box-Car? Jack London, the Industrial Army, and the Politics of (In)visibility
Jack London was a prolific writer whose published books exceeded the number of years that he lived. Experimenting with numerous literary forms ranging from proletarian fiction to one-act plays, London's work addressed a wide-range of subjects, and he never shied away from placing himself or his own adventures at the center of his narratives. Here, Lennon discusses one of the intersections of London's life and ideologies that has been mostly overlooked by scholars: the period from April to September 1894, when he was a hobo. He also analyzes the lifestyle of the hobo that London embodied.
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