![]() ![]() Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation. ![]() Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017Īcross North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. Her latest book, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance was published by the University of Minnesota Press in the fall of 2017, and was awarded Best Subsequent Book by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017 Leanne Simpson’s Public Lecture: As We Have Always Done. ![]()
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![]() ![]() love & sex (YES! This is one of Walker's steamier reads I LOVED the slow burn and the scorching chemistry the MCs had together. ![]() family (but not manufactured family DRAMA) I DO recommend friends who don't take life too seriously.) They call Israel "Captain" and sing the SpongeBob theme song as an inside joke. friendship (Israel and Sam's friends are supportive and hilarious. Sam is the first person Iz turns to, always.) BFFs-to-lovers (Israel and Sam have been friends for more than a decade. ![]() What sorcery is this? Nic Walker waves her author wand and POOF! As Israel embraces new possibilities, he needs to dissect his painful relationship with his parents in order to salvage what’s left.īecause sometimes it takes proof you’re not actually family to become one. Israel and Sam become closer than ever, amidst the tumultuous emotions of meeting his birth family, and Sam finds himself questioning his feelings toward his best friend. With Sam beside him every step of the way, Israel decides to meet his birth mother and her son, the man who lived the life Israel should have. Sam, Israel’s best friend, has been his only source of love and support. Twenty-six years ago two baby boys were switched at birth and sent home with the wrong families. ![]() Then a letter from Eastport Children’s Hospital changes everything.Ī discovery is made, one of gross human error. The fact Israel is gay just added to the long list of his father’s disappointments. He grew up in a house devoid of love and warmth. Israel Ingham’s life has never been easy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Myth-busting, witty, and thought-provoking, Edible Economics serves up a feast of bold ideas about globalization, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation, and why carrots need not be orange. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy.īestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economicsįor decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. ![]() ![]() ![]() What happens when all of those dreams are shattered in a moment’s notice? How does one cope with the loss of their child? This is the story of their journey and of the devastating grief of the loss of her daughter, Dakota Emily Buda. How a piece of her faded when she heard these words: “There’s no heartbeat.” When RaeBeth Buda laid in the hospital in labor, she and her husband heard those dreaded words. This is the story of one mother and how a few words changed her life forever. The anticipation of meeting her cherished baby builds from the very first month and ends after birth. Each step of the pregnancy is a cherished moment. Dreams for the unborn child flood the new mother’s mind, as well as those around her. The love that starts with a test that doesn’t ever end. ![]() ![]() The joy of feeling this new life grow inside of her. The journey of pregnancy brings hope, joy, and love for the expecting mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() (2018). THE EXISTENCE OF OMELAS CITIZEN IN URSULA K. Le Guin (Doctoral dissertation, Univerza v Mariboru, Filozofska fakulteta). ![]() (2020). Scapegoats in The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The Lathe of Heaven and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Evaluating the Values of the Sheepish Slaves: A Synthetical Analysis of “The Lottery” and “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” in Light of Nietzsche’s Ruminations. International Journal of Literature Studies, 2(1), 29-35. Le Guin's" The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". Extrapolation., 59(2), 149-I. Walking Towards Elfland: Fantasy and Utopia in Ursula K. Two Additional Antecedents for Ursula Le Guin's “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 16(3), 51-56. ![]() Through Ecofeminist Eyes: Le Guin's" The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". English Journal, 63-68. ![]() ![]() ![]() King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. ![]() Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() He is most widely read for his fiction, but this intelligently selected and magically translated collection of Borges' nonfiction demonstrates, among other things, the closeness of his two worlds, reality and invention. He was, in short, strange in his determined quest for arcane knowledge and his use of that knowledge in the creation of a literary universe. Of human perplexity he probed the diabolical he invented perfect murders. He loved paradox, the search for meaning in things, the labyrinth as a symbol Orge Luis Borges was the master of the short, erudite mysterious story. ![]() ![]() Translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine and Eliot Weinberger. 'Selected Nonfictions': Borges' Worlds of Reality and InventionīOOKS OF THE TIMES 'Selected Nonfictions': Borges' Worlds of Reality and Inventionīy Jorge Luis Borges. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is worth stressing, in the first place, that when we read The Iliad, we are reading a poem. Furthermore, I find The Iliad to be so profound, so true in what it says about being a human being and living in this world, that it never fails to make me see and understand the world differently and, I hope, better.įor a number of reasons, The Iliad is different from most of the literature we are accustomed to, and it helps to know something about those differences and the reasons behind them before reading the poem. When I read these books, I visit with these friends. ![]() So why have I read Homer’s Iliad fifteen or twenty times? A better answer is because I love it.Īs I said earlier, I like to think of books-the physical objects, books-as holding a world that I can enter and as I also said, some of my best friends, some of the people I know best, live in books. I obviously could teach the book without rereading it, and besides, no one requires me to teach this particular book. Why have I read Homer’s Iliad fifteen or twenty times? The simple answer is that I have taught it many times and each time I teach a book I like to reread it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once I understood those elements I found The Story Peddler to be an enjoyable read. As is sometimes the case with fantasy, it took a little bit for me to get into the book and understand the fantasy elements as created by the author. ![]() Set in a fantasy world Lindsay Franklin has created a wonderful story about people using the gifts given to them by the creator. As Tanwen flees for her life, she unearths long-buried secrets and discovers she’s not the only outlaw in the empire. Tanwen goes from peddler to prey as the king’s guard hunts her down. But the only way to escape the control of her cruel mentor and claw her way from poverty is to set her sights on something grander: becoming Royal Storyteller to the king.ĭuring her final story peddling tour, a tale of treason spills from her hands, threatening the king himself. Tanwen doesn’t just tell stories-she weaves them into crystallized sculptures that sell for more than a few bits. ![]() ![]() ![]() It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. ![]() When you started seeing yourself as a writer, envisioning yourself as a writer, did you anticipate any of this? Is this the life you saw for yourself? You won the Pulitzer Prize for your debut short story collection "Interpreter of Maladies." And then, of course, movie goers got to know you in "The Namesake," the adaptation of your novel, opened in 2006. MARTIN: You have had quite a couple of years. JHUMPA LAHIRI (Author): Thank you, thank you for having me. Her latest work is "Unaccustomed Earth, A Collection of Short Stories." She joins us now to talk about them from NPR's New York bureau. That's the emotional landscape confronting the characters created by author Jhumpa Lahiri. The feeling of belonging, of being settled, and at home. Family members and friends to be sure, but often something more intangible. And no matter how we came, many of us feel as if we've left something behind. So many of us and our ancestors have come across continents and oceans to be a part of this country. In many ways the immigrant story is the American story. We're going to shift gears now to examine another. ![]() |