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Rachel's Children is a true story, based on real events. It is an
engaging and humorous account of a contemporary Ojibwa household
and the woman and her children who are at its core. As their lives
unfold, we understand how traditional beliefs and oral history help
Rachel and her family cope as they encounter racism and educational
discrimination in rural northern Michigan. When a white educator
arrives in Rachel's household to learn about "Indians," she
discovers the harsh reality of backwoods life. Beardslee is the
queen of sucker punches-she writes in an unexpected combination of
ethnography, theatrical script, and novel, echoing the Ojibwa style
of storytelling. Her absorbing story about survival of the Native
American family encourages a greater understanding of cultural
diversity, and will be valuable for instructors in Native studies,
multicultural education, women's studies, and anthropology.
In Not Far Away, a semi-fictional memoir, Lois Beardslee gives a
chilling acount of racism, particularly that leveled against Native
women, in language that is supple, evocative, often comical, and
always incisive. Her fictional heroine, the teacher Ima Pipiig
(pronounced 'buh-BEEG'), endures humiliating insults from school
administrators, fellow teachers, students, and callous neighbors.
For years, she suffers in silence, believing that opposing bigotry
would only fuel its caustic flames but then she begins to speak
out. Scattered among the chapters chronicling Ima's experiences are
essays and speeches written by the author herself, blurring the
line between fiction and fact and creating a kind of resounding
echo of resistance that is the author's response to racism.
In Not Far Away, a semi-fictional memoir, Lois Beardslee gives a
chilling acount of racism, particularly that leveled against Native
women, in language that is supple, evocative, often comical, and
always incisive. Her fictional heroine, the teacher Ima Pipiig
(pronounced "buh-BEEG"), endures humiliating insults from school
administrators, fellow teachers, students, and callous neighbors.
For years, she suffers in silence, believing that opposing bigotry
would only fuel its caustic flames-but then she begins to speak
out. Scattered among the chapters chronicling Ima's experiences are
essays and speeches written by the author herself, blurring the
line between fiction and fact and creating a kind of resounding
echo of resistance that is the author's response to racism.
Meat Puppet Cabaret is a dark fantasy novel that restores the
perverse sex, bad drugs and violent rock 'n' roll to contemporary
folklore. It starts from a weird idea: what if Jack the Ripper were
a demon summoned by the black magician John Dee to steal Princess
Diana's baby Allegra from the scene of the car crash in Paris? What
if Allegra were hidden in a children's home in East London, but
then 14 years later escaped? The novel follows Allegra's adventures
as she quests to discover her true identity in a nightmare
alternate England. She encounters King Charles in orbital exile,
Stalinist bioplasma engineer Natasha Supanova, the conspiratorial
Osiris Club, drug alchemist Eddie Boy Krishna, ex-DJ and reality TV
showman Mark 23 and gangland queens the Karma Twins along the way
before finally confronting John Dee in his hideout beneath
Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath. This is a novel that takes the
legacy of H. P. Lovecraft and updates it for a mediamatic
technopagan world.
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