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The sixteen stories in The Imaginary Friend collection range in
scope from the self-understanding of The Child Clown to the
distortion of goodness in the dystopia of Pretend. Some highlights:
Earth is the story of a civilization discovering that life hasn't
always been lived in caves and that there might be a whole other
surface world. The Imaginary Friend relates what happens to an
imagined friend when his person doesn't imagine him anymore. In
Audrey's Decision, Audrey is frustrated with her life and society
in general but hesitates to commit to Honey, a man who leads the
green life she advocates, because he speaks bee. Buzz, buzz. Boxed
In explores a future where the poor are issued waterproof,
fireproof boxes in which to live. The Wheels on the Bus tracks five
bus riders whose lives touch each other one afternoon. The
collection ends with the joyful bike riding, yurt living love story
of Hank and Susie as told in Wrong Way Do Not Enter.
Scamper is a little fox that gets separated from his mother during
a forest fire. A huge tree has fallen across the path blocking
Scamper's escape. Alone and frightened Scamper feels the heat as
the flames inch closer and closer....will he make it to safety
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This work analyzes the intellectual and cultural influences on an
important African American novelist. Author of the National Book
Award-winning novel ""Middle Passage"", Charles Johnson belongs to
a generation of writers who collectively raised African American
literature to a new position of prominence during the late
twentieth century. In this book, Linda Furgerson Selzer takes an
interdisciplinary approach to Johnson's major fiction, providing
fresh insight into his work by placing it within a broad historical
context. In addition to ""Middle Passage"" (1990), Selzer focuses
on three other novels: ""Faith and the Good Thing"" (1974),
""Oxherding Tale"" (1982), and ""Dreamer"" (1998). She shows how
these works reflect Johnson's participation in the larger cultural
projects of several significant but often overlooked groups - young
black philosophers who challenged the dominant Anglo-American
empiricist tradition during the 1960s and 1970s; black Buddhists of
the post-civil rights era who sought to translate an ancient
religious practice into an African American idiom; and, black
public intellectuals who attempted to revive a cosmopolitan social
ethic during the 1990s. The cultural histories of each of these
groups, Selzer argues, provide important contexts for understanding
Johnson's evolution as a novelist. In the academic experience of
black students who entered philosophy programs during the turbulent
1960s, the spiritual concerns of black Buddhists who have only
recently begun to speak more publicly about their faith, and the
cultural issues surrounding the emergence of a new cohort of
African American public intellectuals, we see the roots of the
social, moral, and aesthetic vision that informs what some have
described as Johnson's 'philosophical fiction'. Selzer's probing
analysis of the influence of each of these contexts not only
enriches our understanding of Charles Johnson's fiction, it also
makes a broader contribution to the cultural history of African
America during the past half century.
During World War II the United States mobilized its industrial
assets to become the great “Arsenal of Democracy” through the
cooperation of the government and private firms. The Dallas Story
examines a specific aviation factory, operated by the North
American Aviation (NAA) company in Dallas, Texas. Terrance
Furgerson explores the construction and opening of the factory, its
operation, its relations with the local community, and the closure
of the facility at the end of the war. Prior to the opening of the
factory in 1941, the city of Dallas had practically no existing
industrial base. Despite this deficiency, the residents quickly
learned the craft of manufacturing airplanes, and by the time of
the Pearl Harbor attack the NAA factory was mass-producing the AT-6
trainer aircraft. The entry of the United States into the war
brought about an enlargement of the NAA factory, and the facility
began production of the B-24 Liberator bomber and the famed P-51
Mustang fighter. By the end of the war the Texas division of NAA
had manufactured nearly 19,000 airplanes, making it one of the most
prolific U.S. factories.
The Battle for Birth Control delves into the complex rhetorical
history of the American birth control movement in its formative
years. In just four decades, advocates, under the strategic
guidance of Margaret Sanger, transitioned the fight for
contraception from fringe radical movement to a respectable
mainstream cause endorsed by powerful professionals and politicians
alike. Eschewing their early ideological commitments to obtain
widespread acceptance, birth controllers adopted a strategy of
political accommodation characterized by deferential rhetoric and
careful posturing. This strategy secured significant victories for
the movement but at what cost? Informed by a deep commitment to
reproductive justice, The Battle for Birth Control traces the
duplicity of the movement's early rhetoric and argues that their
accommodationist strategy yielded increased contraceptive access
solely because of their willingness to endorse the neoliberal
regime of reproductive control largely responsible for the current
threats to reproductive autonomy in the 21st century.
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary
American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit
series Grey's Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private
Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Catch.
Rhimes's work is attentive to identity politics, "post-" identity
politics, power, and representation, addressing innumerable
societal issues. Rhimes intentionally addresses these issues with
diverse characters and story lines that center, for example, on
interracial friendships and relationships, LGBTIQ relationships and
parenting, the impact of disability on familial and work dynamics,
and complex representations of womanhood. This volume serves as a
means to theorize Rhimes's contributions and influence by inspiring
provocative conversations about television as a deeply politicized
institution and exploring how Rhimes fits into the implications of
twenty-first century television.
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary
American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit
series Grey's Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private
Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Catch.
Rhimes's work is attentive to identity politics, "post-" identity
politics, power, and representation, addressing innumerable
societal issues. Rhimes intentionally addresses these issues with
diverse characters and story lines that center, for example, on
interracial friendships and relationships, LGBTIQ relationships and
parenting, the impact of disability on familial and work dynamics,
and complex representations of womanhood. This volume serves as a
means to theorize Rhimes's contributions and influence by inspiring
provocative conversations about television as a deeply politicized
institution and exploring how Rhimes fits into the implications of
twenty-first century television.
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