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Soldiers' wives
This page-turning soap opera interweaves the stories of three women trying to get to grips with military life. Chrissie, orphaned young, finds solace in her career as a medic in the regiment, but will love for a married man prove her undoing? Maddy, a brilliant Oxford graduate, is bogged down with a fretful baby and a super-ambitious officer husband. Will she be able to stand life as a regimental wife? And Jenna - glamorous, bad girl Jenna, who doesn't believe in rules and regulations. Will she destroy her husband's career? Or will it destroy her?
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Fictionalizing the Self: Autofictional Fragments in Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You
By fictionalizing the self, autobiographical elements play a crucial role in analyzing the narrative instability, memory, and language in Meena Kandasamy’s 2017 novel When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife. The novel depicts domestic violence through fragmented, non-linear lenses of display and creates an autobiography that becomes an intense reflection of the protagonist’s pain. This research article employs a qualitative research approach along with the theoretical concepts of autofiction and feminist narrative criticism to explore how Kandasamy creates a semi-fictionalized self to express the phenomena of gendered violence, postcolonial identity, and resistance. The novel’s fragmented structure, metafictional devices, and autobiographical elements create an intervention into a conventional means of discourse (both fiction and memoir), acting as an intervention into the conflicting ways in which women are silenced, whether patriarchally or literarily, creating a strong counter-narrative. Through a close reading of select passages and with the layering of critical secondary texts, this paper illustrates how When I Hit You (Kandasamy, 2017) functions as a site of feminist self-fashioning and subversive storytelling.
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This is home : a novel
\"Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the death of her mother, she lives with her father, Bent, in the middle apartment of their triple decker home--Bent's two sisters, Lucy and Desiree, live on the top floor. A former soldier turned policeman, Bent often works nights, leaving Libby under her aunts' care. Shuffling back and forth between apartments--and the wildly different natures of her family--has Libby wishing for nothing more than a home of her very own. Quinn Ellis is at a crossroads. When her husband John, who has served two tours in Iraq, goes missing back at home, suffering from PTSD he refuses to address, Quinn finds herself living in the first-floor apartment of the Winters house. Bent had served as her husband's former platoon leader, a man John refers to as his brother, and despite Bent's efforts to make her feel welcome, Quinn has yet to unpack a single box. For Libby, the new tenant downstairs is an unwelcome guest, another body filling up her already crowded house. But soon enough, an unlikely friendship begins to blossom, when Libby and Quinn stretch and redefine their definition of family and home.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Recruiting Wombs: Surrogates as the New Security Moms
The Newsweek article illustrates how with one pregnancy, military wives who become surrogates can earn more than their husbands' annual base pay, which for new enlistees ranges from$16,080 to $ 28,900. Besides the limited economic opportunities in many of the places where military bases are located, military wives may have difficulties finding jobs since they are relocated frequently. [...] this uneasiness even becomes institutionalized in health insurance plans: \"Evidence of stratified reproduction can be seen in attempts in the last decade to legislate infertility coverage that benefits typically white, middle-class workers who have health insurance but whose policies typically do not include contraceptive coverage\" (171-72).
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Unbreak my heart
\"What do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes. After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret. Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too - for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it. liking her. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer. Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. So Kate's only choice is to fight for the future she deserves - with or without Shane\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The teachers' Lounge
In John Irving's most recent novel, A Widow for One Year, Ted and Marion Coles' marriage has been ruined by grief. To be more precise, Marion's life has been ruined by grief. Their two sons, Thomas and Timothy, were killed in a driving accident during a family skiing vacation in Colorado, and this caused Marion to sink into a despair that tainted everything in her life.
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On Understanding the Others
What can be learned from other “cultures” about life and death? Can the Others truly be known, except by a rough approximation, especially when there are profound differences in language involved that are likely to elude translators? Is it primarily, or most reliably, about Ourselves that we learn when we study Others?
The point of departure, for our purposes here, is the Yukio Mishima short story “Patriotism,” which describes what we would call a suicide pact between a Japanese Army lieutenant and his wife. A traditional Japanese mode of suicide is drawn upon by the young officer. Our interest in
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On Understanding the Others
What can be learned from other “cultures” about life and death? Can the Others truly be known, except by a rough approximation, especially when there are profound differences in language involved that are likely to elude translators? Is it primarily, or most reliably, about Ourselves that we learn when we study Others?
The point of departure, for our purposes here, is the Yukio Mishima short story “Patriotism,” which describes what we would call a suicide pact between a Japanese Army lieutenant and his wife. A traditional Japanese mode of suicide is drawn upon by the young officer. Our interest in
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TRIAL AND TRIBULATION
A military strategist helps shape a plan that results in her estranged pilot husband flying a perilous mission in Rhodes' World War II novel.
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The Indian Who Bombed Berlin
[...] the surprising and rewarding part of Sher's work is how he excises a small victory for Native Americans by invading the old world using romance languages and his sexual magnetism as his weapons: during many nights, weekends, and occasional vacations, he made love to diplomats' daughters or wives who found his dark face \"exotically handsome\" and his manners \"charmingly French\" (55). By calling the diplomats and international liaisons \"inept political appointees\" (54), Sher's disrespect for those for whom he translates also reveals Salisbury's disdain of imperialism and those who hold the reins of war.
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