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This book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen
King and American History. By depicting American History as a
doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of
important questions: who gets to make history, what gets left out,
how one understands one's role within it, and how one might avoid
repeating mistakes of the past. This volume examines King's
relationship to American History through the illumination of
metanarratives, adaptations, "queer" and alternative historical
lenses, which confront the destructive patterns of our past as well
as our capacity to imagine a different future. Stephen King and
American History will present readers with an opportunity to place
popular culture in conversation with the pressing issues of our
day. If we hope to imagine a different path forward, we will need
to come to terms with this enclosure-a task for which King's corpus
is uniquely well-suited.
This book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen
King and American History. By depicting American History as a
doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of
important questions: who gets to make history, what gets left out,
how one understands one's role within it, and how one might avoid
repeating mistakes of the past. This volume examines King's
relationship to American History through the illumination of
metanarratives, adaptations, "queer" and alternative historical
lenses, which confront the destructive patterns of our past as well
as our capacity to imagine a different future. Stephen King and
American History will present readers with an opportunity to place
popular culture in conversation with the pressing issues of our
day. If we hope to imagine a different path forward, we will need
to come to terms with this enclosure-a task for which King's corpus
is uniquely well-suited.
This collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in
a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear
Criticism perpetually re-surfaces in theoretical circles. Given the
recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the
ripple of anti-nuclear sentiment the event created, as well as the
discursive maneuvers that took place in the aftermath, we might
pause to reflect upon Nuclear Criticism and its place in
contemporary scholarship (and society at-large).Scholars who were
active in earlier expressions of Nuclear Criticism converse with
emergent scholars likewise striving to negotiate the field moving
forward. This volume revolves around these dialogic moments of
agreement and departure; refusing the silence of complacency, the
authors renew this conversation while taking it in exciting new
directions. As political paradigms shift and awareness of nuclear
issues manifests in alternative forms, the collected essays
establish groundwork for future generations caught in a perpetual
struggle with legacies of the nuclear.
Fiction. Canadian Cultural Studies. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE
combines the true story of Canadian daredevil and stunt driver Ken
Carter (1938-1983) with imagined biographical elements from the
lives of Canadian film director Bruce Mcdonald and Canadian poet
Gillian Sze. Along the way, this quintessential Canadian story
crashes head first into many related things, from screenplay theory
to hip hop history to the story of early Canadian film to drawings
to photographs to bank robberies to chaos theory to technical specs
for Detroit muscle cars to re-imagined movies to imagined
documentary to advertisements to newspaper interviews to
instructions for making molotov cocktails to Evel Kneivel to Steve
McQueen's Bullitt to self-help tomes to "rappers delight to online
instructions for how to publish a book, such as the one you are
about to read called I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE by Michael Blouin.
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