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Blood's Will - Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere (Hardcover, New edition)
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Blood's Will - Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Complicated Conversation, 53
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In Blood's Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of
Currere, main character Campbell Cote Phillips-a successful
university professor, mother, and wife-faces the question "what
would she give up to have everything else?" Her comfortable life
takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that not everything is
always as it appears to be. The story unfolds between the 1970s and
contemporary Baltimore, weaving together the experiences of Finn
(an unusual vampire with a strange history) and Campbell-along with
a cast of characters across different generations-whose stories are
portrayed in base-relief against the promise, or peril, of
immortality. Blood's Will is about love and desire, but it is also
about family, friends, and the choices we all make. To be human is
to sacrifice. To be vampire is to have endless opportunities. As
Noel Gough writes, "Understanding curriculum work as a storytelling
practice has been a key theme in the reconceptualisation of
curriculum studies during the last three decades, encapsulated by
Madeleine Grumet's formulation of curriculum as 'the collective
story we tell our children about our past, our present, and our
future.'" Situated as a story embedded in the four stages of
currere, the journey of the book's main characters exemplifies the
journey of recursion: the regressive, the progressive, the
analytical, and the synthetic. Blood's Will is an example of
speculative fiction that "can contribute to an aspect of effective
deliberation that Schwab called 'the anticipatory generation of
alternatives'" (Gough). This book is a useful reading for courses
examining roles of narrative, fiction, and currere as fields of
inquiry.
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