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You make the world
\"A loving ode from a father to his young son about the inherent power he holds within himself\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Monsters among Us
This article provides tips on how popular media, specifically that of science fiction and horror, can be utilized in the classroom to elucidate complex concepts concerning race and ethnic relations. Drawing from the television series Lovecraft Country, I highlight how concepts found in the work of authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon are made more interesting and digestible for students at the undergraduate level when presented in films that rely heavily on science fiction and imagination. Reflections are included from students who watched this series in class during weeks where Du Bois and Fanon were required reading, demonstrating the impact the show had on their understanding of the two thinkers specifically and the study of race and ethnicity generally.
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A psalm for the wild-built
\"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of \"what do people need?\" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They're going to need to ask it a lot. Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Metafiction, Defamiliarization and Cognitive Science: Andrew Crumey’s Mr Mee and Richard Powers’ Galatea 2.2
The present article considers two metafictional novels publishedat the end of the 20 th century against the background of cognitiveliterary studies. The formal features of the novels are discussedwith a view to the way they defamiliarize various concepts: fictionitself, consciousness, memory, science, art, reading, the internet, artificial intelligence, etc. The novels’ attempts at fosteringadialogue between fiction and the humanities, on the one hand, andscience and technology, on the other, are mirrored by the reader’svacillation between engagement and detachment and the effectsofthe texts’ self-reflexivity on the reader’s mind.
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Braced
When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she'll need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she's devastated, afraid that she won't be able to play soccer, and terrified that she won't be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother's determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.
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“Dawdling and Gaping”: James's A Small Boy and Others Lee Clark Mitchell
A Small Boy and Others (1913) is rarely discussed for failing to explain the artist Henry James became — indeed, for failing to cohere as narrative at all. This essay attempts to do that. The reason for both of these failures is due in part to James's two-dimensional depiction of himself as a youth, “wondering and dawdling and gaping,” and in part to the nature of the narrator who mirrors that earlier self, also lost in wonder. This symbiosis of “small boy” and aged artist subverts an autobiographical logic by lauding both earlier and present selves as passive receptacles. The question is why James deliberately mystifies readers this way, given the care with which he reconstructed his past. The answer is that his personal reasons for revisiting his past coincided with a set of different assumptions about consciousness and psychology than had informed his late novels.
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Junior high drama. The runaround rumor
Allie's a star on the track team at Memorial Middle School, but when she passes out at a local track meet, she's diagnosed with diabetes. Afraid of what the other kids will think she tries to keep it a secret--a plan that backfires when her furtive and erratic behavior leads to rumors that she's on drugs, or worse.
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Reading the Coetzee Papers
The acquisition of J. M. Coetzee's papers by the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin represents a turning point in Coetzee studies, the effects of which will be felt for generations. For current readers, the most significant effect will surely be that the evidence of the creative process that has produced Coetzee's authorship will begin to influence how he is read, both within and beyond academic circles. The claims that we as critics make about what and how these texts signify will from now on have to be qualified by what we will come to know about how the novels came into being, and the evidence we have about Coetzee's distinctive forms of creativity. The manuscript entries and revisions are meticulously dated, conveniently so for those who wish to follow their development. In the context of Coetzee criticism, the author would speak of four surprises in the papers.
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Angela's glacier
\"A girl grows up visiting Snæfellsjökull, the glacier near her home, but when preteen life throws her off-center she must reconnect with her icy old friend\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Writing Fiction, Living History: Kanhaiyalal Munshi's historical trilogy
Kanhaiyalal Munshi was a pre-eminent Gujarati author, freedom fighter and politician. A member of the Indian National Congress and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, he is credited with having developed and popularized the concept of Gujarat ni asmita, or Gujarati self-consciousness. This paper focusses on a trilogy of Munshi's historical fiction namely Patan Ni Prabhuta (The Glory of Patan) (1916), Gujarat No Nath (The Master of Gujarat) (1917–1918) and Rajadhiraj (The King of Kings) (1922). This paper offers a close reading of these texts, to argue that the trilogy offers the possibility of opening up notions of Gujarati identity, and of showing its constructed nature. Munshi's engagement with the ideas of politics, heroism and nation-building reflects the concerns of a movement that is trying to understand both itself and the nation that it is in the process of imagining. Highlighting the subversion of the texts is an attempt to stretch the boundaries of Gujarati identity, and think differently about the meaning of being Gujarati.
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