Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book is a collection of interrelated anecdotes, connected in sequence by the randomizing effects of memory and passing association. While the random nature of these connections often leads the narrative in diverging directions, the author unites these threads by relating his experiences while searching for information about his aristocratic forebears in the town of Koltsovo. The inhabitant's voices, past and present, are brought into clear focus through their interactions with the author or through the letters and journal entries that they left behind...
Echoes of a Native Land follows the author's ancestors, the Osorgins, from a time of peace in Koltsovo during the reign of the last tsar to the time of their expulsion from Russia during the Bolshevik revolution. Simultaneously, it traces the history of the peasants of the village to the present...
WASHINGTON: By 2025, say researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the world will be incapable of feeding its estimated 8 billion inhabitants. Unless we cut down the birth rate, writes author Don Hinrichsen, there simply won't be enough farm land to go around...
...legitimacy of studying white literature or white history as they do African-American studies, for example, because "white" in this context has become "the." This is a particular kind of privilege that whites and only whites in this country enjoy. Understanding the racial and historical location of canonical authors, however, is important as long as Ralph Ellison, for example, is primarily studied as "a black author." Similar logic applies to race: racial constructs--such as whiteness and blackness--only exist in contrast to one another, so to study black disadvantage in America, for example, is also to study white privilege...
...blowing a dealer's head off. Grier was a woman of action well before Thelma met Louise, or Ripley encountered aliens. In 1975 Ms. magazine put her on its cover. She was also a sex symbol at a time when black actors rarely had love scenes. Says Darius James, author of the book That's Blaxploitation!: "Pam Grier was one of the first important female action heroes. She was able to both exploit the male libido and assert [physical] power over men." Coffy and Foxy Brown may be shoddy films, but they serve up sex and violence in visceral ways...