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...African country. “Beasts” was originally written as a creative thesis in Harvard’s English Department under the guidance of Visiting Lecturer on African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language, Jamaica Kincaid. At Harvard, Iweala was a Mellon Mays Scholar, and his thesis won a Hoopes Prize. To his surprise, the thesis turned into a novel after Kincaid gave the manuscript to her literary agent. As Iweala explains in a phone interview, he was first struck by the stories of child soldiers during his senior year in high school when...
...event was the second installment of this year’s “Conversations with Kirkland” speaker series, according to Kirkland Scholar in Residence Peter V. Emerson, who organizes the series. Rashad’s appearance was arranged by Susan D. Cooley ’06 and Emily J. Dubner ’06, co-presidents of the “Conversations with Kirkland” group, and was co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, Black Students Association, Harvard African Students Association, Association of Black Harvard Women, Immediate Gratification Players, and Kirkland Drama Society...
...part of working out the body’s position in the world, we are looking at the ‘other’ as discussed in Edward Said’s work and how that has influenced contemporary art.” Edward Said was an influential Palestinian scholar, famous for his theory of Orientalism and “the Other”—the groups of people misrepresented by those more powerful. With this intellectual foundation—supplemented by texts and discussions—it is not surprising that the students’ work...
...clues that all is not right in Pleasantville. In recent years, growing exposure to the outside world and the spread of grassroots markets around the country appear to have eroded totalitarian controls and changed mindsets in the doggedly Stalinist state. How much is hard to say. But a Russian scholar on our tour notes that the crowds aren't as passionate as they once were. In the 1980s, ?You could see their eyes shining,? says Andrei Lankov, who lived in Pyongyang in 1984-85. ?People are maybe not learning the truth but (they are) getting tired...
...flash of steel is revealing. Pang, we later discover, is the granddaughter of the founder of North Korea's repressive state security apparatus Pang Hak Se. ?My grandfather was very faithful to the Great Leader Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il,? she tells me. Indeed, one scholar estimates grandfather sent ten of thousands to the gulag...