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...African writer, is a story set in and expressly concerned with the current political and social conditions of South Africa. It is short, clear, direct and intensely unforgiving--a cry from the heart, dedicated to "my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write...
...Today it's exceedingly difficult to agree on some narrow body of knowledge a student should learn," said Austin Doherty, Alverno's vice-president for academic affairs. "There's too much information out there...
...Junior plays with his building blocks, he can now learn the ABC's of post-modernism. A is for Aporia, B is for Barthes, C is for Chiasma. D, the most important letter in the alphabet of the nouveau ecriture, is for Dualism, Deconstruction, Dissemination, and of course, Derrida. And when Junior begins to put letters together to form a word (which we now call a logos), he has a whole new set of challenges ahead of him. For difference is now spelled differance, while the prefix 'meta' opens infinite new realms of meaning...
Punctuation, too, becomes a crucial consideration: instead of calling for mommy, the new-age child must learn to cry for his (M)other. And don't forget con-junctions. The intertextual Grammer Rock must now instruct children in the mysterious 'either/or and simultaneously neither/nor.' Never fear that traditional values need fall by the wayside: discipline is still important, as every mother who has ever washed out her child's mouth with soap for saying "dualism" or "positivism" in the house can tell...
This new education, which gives Frere Jacques a whole new meaning, can help your child develop the capacities to become a fulfilled speaking subject, and prepare him to confront successfully the challenge offered by each of life's aporias. He'll learn to undermine the binary oppositions that separate work and play, mom and dad, fact and fiction. Of course, this creates problems when Junior lies to mom and swears he's telling the truth...