5/13/2023 0 Comments Ancestor Stones by Aminatta FornaI illustrate this argument – developed at greater length in my book Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) – with a case study of a literary text that seems to me to call for a more inclusive, materialist, and politicized form of trauma theory. I contend that the suffering engendered by colonialism and its aftermath needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, and in its own terms if trauma theory is to redeem its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement. In this chapter, I take issue with the tendency of the founding texts of the field to marginalize or ignore traumatic experiences of non-Western or minority groups, to take for granted the universal validity of definitions of trauma and recovery that have developed out of the history of Western modernity, and to favour or even prescribe a modernist aesthetic of fragmentation and aporia as uniquely suited to the task of bearing witness to trauma. Despite a stated commitment to cross-cultural solidarity, trauma theory – an area of cultural investigation that emerged out of the “ethical turn” affecting the humanities in the 1990s – is marked by a Eurocentric, monocultural bias.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Liverpool Pubs by Ken PyeMy objective is simply to provide a (hopefully) useful overview which covers the period before Liverpool came into existence, through to the middle of the 1960s. Apart from books you can find a myriad of detailed articles and essays on a wide range of topics, the majority of which are available on the Internet. There is a wealth of material available on Liverpool and its history. Hopefully, there are sufficient links within the text and information in the bibliography section to allow the reader to delve further if he or she is interested. The sole objective is to give the reader a taste for the subject. This potted history sits somewhere in the middle. There are full-blown books at one end of the reading spectrum and small articles or blogs, usually on the Internet, at the other end. Her words bring to life the all-day Sunday services at the Sanctified church, the "perfect days" of her girlhood, and the ghost stories told on the porch of a soft midwestern summer evening. Taylor, who started a girls' string band and a whole assortment of street vendors and playmates who made up the world of her childhoodĪs she grew up, Fairbanks saw many different sides of her community. Neal, the genteel activist who showed her the difference between a salad fork and a dessert fork Mr. Its pages are filled with fascinating people: Mama and Daddy-Willie Mae and George Edwards-who taught her about love and pride an dignity Aunt Good, a tall and stately woman with a "queenly secretive attitude" brother Morris, who "took the time to teach me about the street and the people I would find there" Mrs. The Days of Rondo is Evelyn Fairbanks's affectionate memoir of this lively neighborhood. African Americans whose families had lived in Minnesota for decades and others who were just arriving from the South made up a vibrant, vital community that was in many ways independent of the white society around it. 2In the 1930s and the 1940s Rondo Avenue was at the heart of St. Appealing to both new and old fans, this is a real treat for anyone who enjoys warm-hearted and sincere storytelling - and it's best enjoyed with a nice cup of tea. In this digital-exclusive short story, Vanessa Greene revisits the characters we first fell in love with in The Vintage Teacup Club. Suddenly their friendship is more important than ever. But when Alison's happiness is threatened and news from home shocks Jenny back to reality, the women must band together. It's been a long year of financial sacrifice, but working-mum Alison has fulfilled her dream at last - she is now the proud co-owner of a café and art gallery. Candlelit baths have made way for endless night feeds, and she and partner Owen are struggling to find any time for themselves. Meanwhile, Maggie's ordered world is thrown into chaos when her baby son Leo arrives. The children's books Jenny writes and illustrates from her countryside studio are doing well, and after a lifetime of looking after everyone else, she's finally putting herself first. He’s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother.īut then she meets Ocean James. So she’s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments-even the physical violence-she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. Spoiler alert: I loved it very much.īefore I delve into my review, here’s the cover and synopsis: I am so ecstatic for today’s post, as I will finally be sharing my thoughts on Tahereh Mafi’s YA contemporary debut, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, which I read for The Reading Rush two weeks and fell head over heels with. Hello there, speedsters! Welcome back to my blog! 5/12/2023 0 Comments Cell by Stephen KingThe old man pooh-poohs the device at first, before becoming enamored with it, identifying not only its myriad uses but also its corrosive possibilities. (L-R) Jaeden Martell as Craig and Donald Sutherland as Mr. Set about 15 years in the past, when Craig finally sways his widowed dad (Joe Tippett) to break down and get him an early iPhone as he starts high school - hoping to fit in with the cool kids - Craig decides to use some Lotto-won cash to also buy one for Mr. Amid a month of Halloween-tinged offerings, it might be one of the few to share with the kids - at least, before the next time you punish them by taking their phone away.įeaturing the co-star of another recent King adaptation ("It" star Jaeden Martell) as the teenage protagonist, Craig, the movie benefits enormously from 87-year-old Donald Sutherland's work in the title role, playing a reclusive billionaire who pays the lad to come read to him a few times a week in his sprawling estate. Harrigan's Phone" to the relatively short list of really good Stephen King adaptations, garnishing a coming-of-age story with discreet hints of the supernatural and thoughtful rumination about cell phones that finds true horror in their ubiquity. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Loretta Lynn by Loretta LynnThe first of Loretta Lynn’s songs to top the Billboard country charts came with this feisty offering about a woman who was tired of her husband wanting to get romantic when he was intoxicated. "Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)" (1967). But, perhaps the most interesting performance of this song goes to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who recorded it as an extra for the 2005 film Be Cool. The Grateful Dead performed it in concert during the early 1970s, and Martina McBride paid homage to Lynn with a cover on her 2005 album Timeless. This song of warning to another woman who had designs on the singer’s man - inspired by a real-life incident - has become one of the most covered of Lynn’s songs over the years. “You Ain’t Woman Enough (to Take My Man)” (1966).Fifteen years later, Emmylou Harris lovingly tipped her hat to Lynn with a faithful hit cover of this timeless tune. While the majority of classic Loretta Lynn songs flowed from her own pen, this aching song of loneliness – from her 1964 album Songs From My Heart - features the songwriting credit of Johnny Mullins. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Star wars x wing wedge's gambleBut first Wedge Antilles and his X-wing pilots must infiltrate Coruscant to gain vital intelligence information. The Rebels will invade this mighty citadel in a daring move to bring the Empire to its knees. Now they must embark on a dangerous espionage mission, braving betrayal and death on the Imperial homeworld to smash the power of a ruthless foe! It is the evil heart of a battered and reeling Empire: Coruscant, the giant city-world from whose massive towers the Imperial High Command directs the war. And as the battle against the Empire rages across the vastness of space, the pilots risk both their lives and their machines for the cause of the Rebel Alliance. Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the X-wing fighters. Book excerpt: Led by Wedge Antilles, the legendary pilots of Rogue Squadron prepare to risk everything in their battle against the Empire. This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Stackpole and published by National Geographic Books. Stackpoleĭownload or read book Wedge's Gamble: Star Wars Legends (X-Wing) written by Michael A. Book Synopsis Wedge's Gamble: Star Wars Legends (X-Wing) by : Michael A. 5/11/2023 0 Comments High-Rise by J.G. BallardSo tickled was he by this Möbius-looping of reality and the imagined that Ballard wrote about the episode in another roman-à-clef, The Kindness of Women. And as the book is a furious collage of extreme images, the film is of the highest fidelity imaginable.īallard also liked Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Empire of the Sun, although more, one suspects, because of the opportunity he got to be an extra in a party scene that was set in a simulacrum of his parents’ interwar home in Shanghai. It was hardly a surprising verdict the movie, released in 2000, eschews any of the easy certainties of narrative for a furious collage of extreme images – urban wastelands, nuclear explosions, penises rhythmically pumping in and out of vaginas – all to the accompaniment of a voice-over comprising near-verbatim passages from the quasi-novel. Of the film adaptations that had been made of his work during his lifetime, J G Ballard vouchsafed to me that he liked Jonathan Weiss’s version of The Atrocity Exhibition the best. Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, was a keen admirer of Palladio and once referred to the book as "the Bible". Palladian architecture grew in popularity across Europe and, by the end of the 18th century, had extended as far as North America. The book's clarity inspired numerous patrons and other architects. Some of these ideas had got no further than the drawing board while others, for example villa plans, had been successfully built. I quattro libri dell'architettura contains Palladio's own designs celebrating the purity and simplicity of classical architecture. Palladio founded an architectural movement which takes its name from him, Palladian architecture. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Fully illustrated with architectural drawings. Demy folio,, paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. |