Month: January 2020

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+ eando binder, jim crow, my best science fiction story, professor mun zeerohs, science fiction, segregation, the teacher from mars

Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” and Jim Crow

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In my Literature and Composition Graphic Memoirs class, I taught Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” along with the graphic adaptation written by Otto Binder and Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando. Today, I want to talk about the story, and in the next post, I want to look at the some of the elements of the adaptation along with Feldstein and Orlando’s … Read More Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” and Jim Crow

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+ Damian Duffy, graphic novels, John Jennings, kindred, laurel falls camp, lillian e smith, octavia butler, parable of talents, parable of the sower

Empathy in John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s “Parable of the Sower”

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During the camp season at Laurel Falls, Lillian Smith would write letters home to the parents of campers. In the mid-summer 1946 Laurel Leaf, she wrote to parents about the adventures of Buss Eye, the plays that the girls wrote, and other camp activities. Near the end of the letter, she writes about the conversations that the campers had after hearing about the lynching … Read More Empathy in John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s “Parable of the Sower”

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+ "health card", african american literature, american literature, frank yerby, georgia literature, how to be an antiracist, ibram x. kendi, langston hughes, lois beckett, southern literature, speak now

“That is merde alors!”: Frank Yerby and Identity

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Rediscovering Frank Yerby, a project I have been working on for a few years, will be out this May from the University Press of Mississippi. Along with this, UPM will release Veronica Watson’s The Short Stories of Frank Yerby around the same time. I am extremely excited for each of these books, not just because I edited one of them. I am excited because … Read More “That is merde alors!”: Frank Yerby and Identity

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“Is this what my tax money is going to?”: Complicating the Trump Administration’s Fascination with Norway

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Before I left Norway last June, Brianne Jaquette and I worked on a piece that looked at the administration’s numerous references to Norway over the past few years. Just this past week, Mike Pompeo stated, “We just want Iran to behave more like a normal country, to be like Norway.” In this piece, Brianne and I argue that using Norway is a referent is much more … Read More “Is this what my tax money is going to?”: Complicating the Trump Administration’s Fascination with Norway

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+ comics, george takei, graphic memoir, graphic novels, harmony becker, idw publishing, justin eisinger, lillian e smith, paul ricoeur, stephen scott, the journey, they called us enemy

“Memory is a wily keeper of the past”: The Narrative of Memory

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Throughout our lives, we create memories, then we reconstruct those memories, and they appear again and again within our mind. For me, one memory that always pops up concerns a time when I was a kid, riding a four-wheeler at my grandfather’s camp. I sat down on the seat, my dad sitting behind me, and I pulled the throttle back with my right hand. … Read More “Memory is a wily keeper of the past”: The Narrative of Memory

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