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The corn grows ripe
Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatâan, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.
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Me oh Maya
Joe, Fred, and Sam find themselves whisked by The Book to the main ring-ball court in Chichin Itza, Mexico in 1000 A.D., where they must play for their lives against a Mayan High Priest who cheats.
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Introduction—: African American Writers Respond to Poe
From the antebellum period to the present, Black authors in the United States have explicitly referred to, noted the influence of, and responded directly or indirectly to Poe and his writings, thereby being \"particularly active in keeping Poe alive. Recognized as the first African American detective and mystery story, Pauline Hopkins's \"Talma Gordon\" (1900), featuring a locked-room murder mystery and a rapacious ship captain who kills his men to keep the location of pirate treasure to himself, signifies on \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Gold-Bug. \"16 This statement at once links the experience of being Black in the United States to gothic fiction and pointedly distinguishes between them. [...]critics have written about the relationship between Richard Wright and Poe since the early 1970s, discussing the latter's influence on the former's early story \"Superstition\" (1930) and Wright's explicit mention of Poe in \"How Bigger Was Born,\" included in Native Son (1940).17 Near the end of his life, James Baldwin referred to the Poe-Wright connection in his comments on the abductions and killings of at least thirty Black males in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981: \"Richard Wright once wrote that if Edgar Allan Poe had been born in 20th Century America, he would not have had to invent horror; horror would have invented him. In addition to being mentioned in Gil-Scott Heron's The Vulture (1970), he factors in four of Ishmael Reed's books published between 1967 and 1976, namely The Free-Lance Pallbearers, Mumbo Jumbo, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, and Flight to Canada.23 In the last of these, about a protagonist named Raven Quickskill, Reed asks, \"Why isn't Edgar Allan Poe recognized as the principal biographer of [the Civil War]?
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Shadow of the shark
As a thank-you from Merlin and Morgan, Jack and Annie are sent on what should be a vacation at a luxurious resort in Cozumel, Mexico, but is, by mistake, an adventure with ancient Mayans, instead.
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Telling and Being Told
Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years.Telling and Being Toldpresents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures. Analyzing the storyteller as the embodiment of indigenous knowledge in written and oral texts, this book highlights how Yucatec Maya literatures play a vital role in imaginings of Maya culture and its relationships with Mexican and global cultures.Through performance, storytellers place the past in dynamic relationship with the present, each continually evolving as it is reevaluated and reinterpreted. Yet non-indigenous actors often manipulate the storyteller in their firsthand accounts of the indigenous world. Moreover, by limiting the field of literary study to written texts, Worley argues, critics frequently ignore an important component of Latin America's history of conquest and colonization: The fact that Europeans consciously set out to destroy indigenous writing systems, making orality a key means of indigenous resistance and cultural continuity.Given these historical factors, outsiders must approach Yucatec Maya and other indigenous literatures on their own terms rather than applying Western models. Although oral literature has been excluded from many literary studies, Worley persuasively demonstrates that it must be included in contemporary analyses of indigenous literatures as oral texts form a key component of contemporary indigenous literatures, and storytellers and storytelling remain vibrant cultural forces in both Yucatec communities and contemporary Yucatec writing.
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Enlarging the World: Old Age as Seen Through the Lens of Literature
Novels expose us to personal stories of people from a variety of social classes and ethnic backgrounds, whose lives challenge them in different ways. Fiction can increase an understanding of the problems and strengths of aging, and heighten compassion. This article showcases selected
authors who have created protagonists who face a variety of sometimes unfamiliar problems and, often, find surprisingly creative solutions. These authors emphasize the connection between each stage of life and the next, and observe that people can carry unresolved problems into old age, and
that many of these are the sum of issues they have borne over the life course.
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A PHILOSOPHY OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY: BODY & TEXT
While Art's own labors over the drawing board to embody his characters are not the focus of his chapter Rathore is attentive and sometimes critical of the visual elements of Satrapi's Persepolis. Whether it is Art Spiegelman toiling away atop a mountain of corpses, Maya Angelou being turned away by the dentist, Yukio Mishima's seppuku or Gandhi's experiments; it is always the lived, embodied detail that traces the path to the revealing. NANDAN ROSARIO Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi Aakash Singh Rathore through A Philosophy of Autobiography: Body & Text makes a strong case for unity of flesh and spirit as an essential element of human existence. Fact, Fiction and the Fake: One dominant dualism has been challenged by the author (fact vs. fiction), which he deals with explicitly in chapters on Ernest Hemingway and Art Spiegelman.
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CRITICAL GLOBAL LITERACIES
Defining our reading as global may seem foreign; it should not. Reading is a form of cultural study and engagement. Global readers are akin to researchers positioning themselves, grappling with their identities as they scrutinize the text themselves and the cauldron of global sociopolitical forces involved. They examine events, settings, characters, and issues from different perspectives as they observe and participate aesthetically, vicariously, differently, and critically. Global meaning- making in volves weighing information from multiple informants and multiple sources: various exchanges with friends, colleagues, and others--being sure to do so reservedly and respectfully. It entails a form of shuttle diplomacy shifting from passive readings to proactive engagements for, with, and behind others--being an ally and advocate interrupting the systems, practices, and dispositions that might objectify, commodify, exploit, or nullify diversity. English teachers might delve into sociopolitical developments, the nature of such events, and some of the transcultural, border- crossing, and displacement issues represented.
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