Download or read book What the World Might Look Like written by Susie O’Brien and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of resilience is everywhere these days, offering a framework for thriving in volatile times. Dominant resilience stories share an attachment to a mythologized past thought to hold clues for navigating a future that is understood to be full of danger. These stories also uphold values of settler colonialism and white supremacy. What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience thinking has come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models of thought. The book traces settler-colonial resilience stories to the rise of resilience science in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating how the discipline supports the projects of white supremacy and colonialism. Working to unravel the blanket of common sense that shrouds the idea of resilience, the book is equally cautious of settler-colonial antiresilience stories that invoke the idea of death as an antidote to unbearable life. Susie O’Brien argues that, although the dominant narratives of resilience are problematic, resilience itself is neither inherently good nor inherently bad. Appreciating the significance of resilience stories requires asking what worlds and what communities they are meant to preserve. Looking at the fiction of Alexis Wright, David Chariandy, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, O’Brien points to the potential of Black and Indigenous thinking around resilience to figure decolonial possibilities for planetary flourishing. Exposing the complexities and limits of resilience, What the World Might Look Like questions the concept of resilience, highlighting how Black and Indigenous novelists can offer different decolonial ways of thinking about and with resilience to imagine things “otherwise.”
Download or read book Brother written by David Chariandy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James "Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." --Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter WINNER--Toronto Book Award WINNER--Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize WINNER--Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991. One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. Honest and insightful in its portrayal of kinship, community, and lives cut short, David Chariandy's Brother is an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice.
Download or read book The Origin of Oughtness written by Stefan Fischer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How come we ought to do things? Current metanormative debates often suffer from the fact that authors implicitly use adequacy conditions not shared by their opponents. This leads to an unsatisfying dialectical gridlock (Chang): One author accuses her opponents of not being able to account for stuff she judges essential, but the opponents do not think this to be a major flaw. In an attempt to meet the problem of gridlock head-on, the current investigation approaches oughtness differently. I start with the introduction of a grounding framework for thinking about oughtness that allows a lucid presentation of the views on the market. It soon becomes clear that one necessary part of any plausible assessment of accounts of oughtness is a discussion of their adequacy conditions. I continue with a detailed evaluation of four different accounts, as presented by Halbig (2007), Schroeder (2007), Stemmer (2006), and Scanlon (2014). My main result is that desire-based or Humean theories of oughtness are more plausible because desire-independent accounts fail to explain something crucial: the for-me character of oughtness. Based on the insights gathered thus far, I then develop a new Humean theory – metaethical conativism – and defend it against some historically influential objections.
Download or read book Desirea written by Pattimari Sheets Cacciolfi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever dreamed that one day you would awaken and find yourself lifted from the dregs and depths of poverty only to discover that you are now wealthy? Desirea had such a dream - only when she was startled into reality did she realize she had inherited a wealth beyond her imagination. Losing her mother, Emily, abandoned by her father, Phillip, or so she thought, Desirea wanders through life until Allison, her grandmother, offers her a position in life dreamed of by many, but realized by few. Desirea discovers herself and promises to never become a snob. Does she succeed?
Download or read book Canadian Suburban written by Cheryl Cowdy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though a large proportion of Canadians live in suburban communities, the Canadian cultural imaginary is filled with other landscapes. The wilderness, the prairie, cityscapes, and small towns are the settings by which we define our nation, rather than the strip mall, the single-family home, and the developing subdivision, which for many are ubiquitous features of everyday life. Canadian Suburban considers the cultures of suburbia as they are articulated in English Canadian fiction published from the 1960s to the present. Cheryl Cowdy begins her excursion through novels set between 1945 and 1970, the heyday of modern suburban development, with works by canonical authors such as Margaret Laurence, Richard B. Wright, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Gowdy. Her investigation then turns to the meaning of the suburbs within fiction set after the 1970s, when a more corporate model of suburbanization prevailed, and ends with an investigation of how writers from immigrant and racialized communities are radically transforming the suburban imaginary. Cowdy argues there is no one authentic suburban imaginary but multiple, at times contradictory, representations that disrupt prevalent assumptions about suburban homogeneity. Canadian Suburban provides a foundation for understanding the literary history of suburbia and a refreshing reassessment of the role of space and place in Canadian culture and identity.
Download or read book Press Summary Illinois Information Service written by Illinois Information Service and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Revolution written by Blou Bryant and published by Blou Bryant. This book was released on 2024-08-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyatt Millar thought he had it rough when he was just trying to stay alive. Now? He's got rogue AIs, a tech mogul with a god complex, and a virus that's rewriting his very existence. And you thought your Monday was bad. From Detroit's crumbling streets to high-tech fortresses, Wyatt's running a race where the finish line keeps moving. The prize? Oh, just the future of humanity. No biggie. Armed with newfound abilities that are more "glitch in the Matrix" than "chosen one," Wyatt's got to outthink an AI that's playing 4D chess while he's still figuring out checkers. And did we mention the clock's ticking? REVOLUTION is a mind-bending cocktail of high-octane action, razor-sharp wit, and enough tech to make Silicon Valley sweat. It's perfect for readers who like their sci-fi with a shot of adrenaline and their dystopias with a twist of hope. Have you read book 1? What readers are saying about Catalyst: “a high octane SciFi thriller with bold characterization and fast paced action” "brilliant writing... There is a new talent in town." "I loved the book. Fresh, exciting and a quick read." "Blou Bryant has produced one of the most unusual, yet gripping thrillers I have ever read. This revolution isn't just televised; it's digitized, weaponized, and ready to redefine reality as we know it.
Download or read book Outbursts of a Supercilious Renouncer written by Baethan Balor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What not to do with one's life; an expulsion of trite. "The reader is a fool."
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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy written by Rodolphe Solbiac and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy explores the fiction written by this Caribbean Canadian writer to bring new perspectives to the existing scholarship on memory, history, trauma, myth, second-generation issues, cultural inheritance and transmission. The works presented in this collection about Chariandy’s novels Soucouyant and Brother consider new aspects and bring a fresh gaze to themes that have previously been explored. Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy presents second-generation Caribbean Canadian cultural affiliation to the Caribbean and North America as an outcome of a self-managed reparatory postcolonial aural transmission. It brings a new exploration of relationships between dementia, animality, forgetting, transformation, and identity, as well as an original analysis of the implications and stakes raised by Canadian middlebrow reception of Soucouyant in 2007. The new readings of Chariandy’s exploration of the relationship between history, memory, and myth, included in this collection, disclose the stakes and scope of the author’s use of the myth of the soucouyant, and of the mythologies of Scarborough and Canada. This collection also approaches Soucouyant as the literary form of a process of searching for healing that operates both at personal and collective levels, demonstrating the author's use of different types of memories for healing power.
Download or read book Jeremiah Jericho Allowance written by Azariah Scott and published by J. Jammer. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "Everything from teen angst to a scifi-like twist that keeps you hooked!" - Amazon Customer ___________ Jeremiah just turned 16 and found out that he inherited something from his dead father: a computer chip embedded in his brain! The chip gives him the ability to hack other people's minds. The problem starts with an additional voice in his head from the chip, then his family's hidden issues come to the surface, and, of course, the government wants the chip back under their control. All the things a teenager doesn't want to be bothered with. Jeremiah has to make a choice to be either the better person his dad was trying to get him to be or just shrug it off and be as he wants to be, unbothered.
Download or read book Great Dictionary of Atomic Typographic Errors in English I Substitution of a Single Letter by Contiguity Canadian Multilingual Standard I 1 A F written by Cornéliu Tocan and published by Créatique. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book My Little Red Book written by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY LITTLE RED BOOK is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. The accounts range from light-hearted (the editor got hers while water skiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis). The contributors include well-known women writers (Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Cecily von Ziegesar), alongside today's teens. And while the authors differ in race, faith, or cultural background, their stories share a common bond: they are all accessible, deeply honest, and highly informative. Whatever a girl experiences or expects, she'll find stories that speak to her thoughts and feelings. Ultimately, MY LITTLE READ BOOK is more than a collection of stories. It is a call for a change in attitude, for a new way of seeing periods. In a time when the taboo around menstruation seems to be one of the few left standing, it makes a difficult subject easier to talk about, and helps girls feel proud instead of embarrassed or ashamed. By revealing what it feels like to undergo this experience first hand, and giving women the chance to explain their feelings in their own words, it aims to provide support, entertainment, and a starting point for discussion for mothers and daughters everywhere. It is a book every girl should have. Period.
Download or read book The Colorful Family Table written by Ilene Godofsky Moreno and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delight your family's palate with a rainbow of delicious, plant-based dishes! Have an array of mouths to feed? Stubborn preteen, picky toddler, or a spouse skeptical of anything labeled "vegan"? The Colorful Family Table is here to help. Certified health coach, plant-based food blogger and author of The Colorful Kitchen Ilene Godofsky returns with more than 90 all-new plant-based recipes perfect for your family's table. Created from simple, familiar ingredients, Ilene's recipes are reader-tested to please even the most finicky family members. Inside, discover healthy, seasonal recipes, including: • Watermelon & Tofu Feta Salad • Zucchini Corn Fritters with Basil Aioli • Bacon, Kale & Apple Sammie • Pumpkin-Stuffed Pumpkin Mac 'n' Cheese • Everything Bagel Pancakes & Spring Veggies with Hollandaise Sauce • Blueberry Quinoa Cornbread Muffins • Tempeh Tacos with Peach Salsa • Cheesy Broccoli Dumpling Stew With easy-to-follow instructions (even for the kitchen novice!) and prep times designed for busy families, making meals as nutritious and delicious as they are eye-catching has never been easier. Make your family table a colorful family table, and spend more time enjoying the people who matter the most.
