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"Leopard Fiction."
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The imaginary okapi
\"Beshte discovers an okapi--a shy animal that looks like a cross between a zebra and a giraffe. He hides whenever the rest of the Guard come by so they assume Beshte made up an imaginary friend. But now the okapi is being chased by a leopard! Can the Lion Guard protect him?\"--Amazon.com
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Leopard Watch
In beautifully constructed verse, JK Bannavti's Leopard Watch tells the story of a Fon who out of greed and veiled impiety devastates the land over which he rules. The Fon, The King of Bamkov is in a perpetual state of slumber while an illusive beast drives terror into the heart of the kingdom, killing children as well as cattle. Neither the cries of the people nor pressure from the notables seems to have any effect on him. The population of the clan diminishes daily while the Fon sleeps, snores, and drools in the day, and growls, chews, and laps in the night. When finally the notables join the youth vigilante group to hunt down the beast, they come face to face with the devourer who narrowly escapes. A day later, one of the notables, Gwei, in a drunken state encounters and kills the leopard at night as he returns from the market. Amidst jubilation and in honor of Gwei the Fon collapses off his horse and dies. His carcass lies in the same state as that of the dead leopard.
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Wildoak
Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache and only her menagerie of pets, whom she can speak with fluidly, provide her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard, in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter will change their lives forever.
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The Postwar Fate of American Fiction; LEOPARDS IN THE TEMPLE: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970, By Morris Dickstein, Harvard University Press: 144 pp., $15.95 paper
\"Leopards in the Temple\" is the only lucid and enjoyably written study of postwar American fiction to have come along in years. It first appeared in \"The Cambridge History of American Literature,\" which means that Dickstein's commentary will stand for a long time as the reference work that high school and college students turn to for clarity on the subject. And so it's important to get a good take on Dickstein's own. [Morris Dickstein] wants to revise the conventional view of the 1950s as a time of social conformity and political consensus, in which both types of complacency were nourished by tremendous economic growth and a sense of almost majestic power following the victories over Germany and Japan. Underneath the seemingly passive acceptance of mainstream values, Dickstein finds the \"thread of anxiety, paranoia, and inner conflict,\" but he also discovers a \"wild emotional vitality ... that fed paradoxically off the economic expansions and the new social mobility.\" Dickstein's treatment of [Ralph Ellison] is where his attempt to explode the standard view of the closed, conformist 1950s becomes nearly as narrow and tame as that view itself. Dickstein describes Ellison as \"stak[ing] the greatest claims--not for a separate black culture or literary tradition, but for an inestimably great role within American culture.\" This is indeed how Ellison envisioned the black experience in his essays and speeches, but it has nothing to do with his vision of black experience in \"Invisible Man,\" whose hero Dickstein rightly characterizes as \"breaking with received messages, socially ascribed roles, conventional restraints, and respectable ambitions.\" There is nothing liberally tolerant, common-sensical or pragmatic about Ellison's Dostoevskyan hero, who rejects social life altogether at the end of the novel and goes to live in a basement, literally \"underground.\"
Newspaper Article
Baby Baboon
Leopard is lazy and asks baboon and baby baboon to help him catch a hare for supper, but when they let the hare get away, Leopard gets angry.
How the Leopard Got His Claws (review)
Morrison reviews How the Leopard Got His Claws by Chinua Achebe and John Iroaganachi and illustrated by Mary GrandPre.
Journal Article
Matylda, bright & tender
Struggling to hold on to Guy and love their pet gecko enough for the both of them after a devastating accident, Sussy begins stealing from the pet store.
Book
Spontaneous Generation
For instance, [Morris Dickstein] makes much of Norman Mailer's turn, after The Naked and the Dead, from social realist to flamboyant autobiographical journalist. In effect, he interprets this turn as an emblem for the entire period. Hence the Mailer of Advertisements for Myself and The Armies of the Night is of a piece with [Ralph Ellison]'s nameless autobiographical hero in Invisible Man, [Saul Bellow]'s numerous fictional alter-egos (Mr. Sammler, Moses Herzog), and ultimately [Philip Roth]'s scabrous Alexander Portnoy. Nevertheless, the book's most impressive section is an elegant work of theme-and-variations entitled \"On and Off the Road: The Outsider as Young Rebel.\" In this beautifully constructed essay, Dickstein considers a half-dozen or so writers all linked by the metaphor of \"the road.\" He begins with Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, then moves to [Jack Kerouac]'s On the Road and its bourgeois brother, [John Updike]'s Rabbit, Run, which in turn leads him to consider Updike's fussy forebear, Vladimir Nabokov, whose Great American Road Novel, Lolita, gets contrasted with [John Barth]'s self-reflexive existential novel, The End of the Road.
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