These representations carry dialogical voices which underpin the authoritative voice of the authors. Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Kofi Awoonor are such writers who have made great artistic efforts to portray an Afrotopia, or at best viable socio-political systems in the wake of colonial situation.The present work aims to examine closely these novelists' ideological convictions as they are expressed in their fictions and often shown to be in opposition to the practices established by the state apparatuses in place.This book shows how the African situation has been characterised in the African novels by both a common continental experience and a number of facts that dramatise the historical predicament of slavery, colonialism and a problematic independence. The idea of the nation or nationalism in relation to Africa and African literature has been widely dealt with in modern African literature, arising from the fact that writers are bent on expressing their concern about the future of their countries.
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What's particularly striking about the book, what had me lying awake at night, was the fact that Lia's life is pretty normal. As the story begins, Cassie, Lia's one-time best friend and fellow eating disorder sufferer, dies, and even that isn't enough of a wake-up call to change her. Lia sees the impact that she's having on her impressionable young stepsister, but she still doesn't eat. Through Wintergirls, Anderson shows us both the skewed viewpoint of girls like Lia (who, even as they waste away to skin and bones see themselves as obese), and the deviousness and single-mindedness with which they can pursue their goals. Lia's mother is a doctor, and she still can't make her daughter eat. Wintergirls is the first person story of Lia, a girl who devotes her considerable determination to a single cause - that of being thin. In the case of Wintergirls, that condition is anorexia. Both books give the reader an inside perspective on a condition that most people aren't comfortable thinking about. Laurie Halse Anderson's upcoming young adult novel Wintergirls is sure to draw comparisons to her 1999 novel, Speak. Bus service will be adjusted based on road conditions around the city, and service curtailments on a route-by-route basis are possible.Ĭheck the MTA website for updates. New York City articulated buses will be fitted with chains for Tuesday morning rush hour. MTA says employees will be deployed throughout the operating region spreading salt and clearing surfaces of snow, keeping signals, switches, and third rails operating, and attending to any weather-related challenges. The prep work ahead of the first significant snow storm of the year actually started days ago. Many of the roads in town already have a coat of brine. And for kids (and some adults) that meant a snow day, and a chance to go sledding! 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But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange.Īlma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. Book 2 Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones 4. The good kind, of course” (BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel Each word took a multitude of man-hours to establish the details that made it worthy of being in the reference book. A painstaking process that came at great sacrifice to the families and reputations of the men behind this project. As the information came in, Professor Murray and his team began to piece together the history and definitions of the English language. The process involved a method of getting input from common citizens from all over the world. It was when Professor James Murray (Mel Gibson) took over the plan of putting together Oxford’s English dictionary that it started to take shape. A convicted murderer who was incarcerated at an asylum for the criminally insane, but despite his mental illness he went onto become an essential resource for the establishment of today’s English dictionary.Ī task that had perplexed Oxford University's leadership for decades was now underway. This is at the heart of Simon Winchester’s book, an investigative study into the case of Dr. Within the various levels of mental illness, it can be challenging to determine the line between a patients value to society and when they may become a harm to themselves or others. The intricacies of the human mind have baffled and fascinated scientists throughout history. Throughout the ages, madness and insanity have taken on different characteristics and definitions. |