This was the underlying theme of Binti: Home and I was a bit surprised to discover that this situation was going to be leaned on again. Once again, Binit’s identity expands outside herself, and she struggles to figure out who she really is. I spent some time thinking about what argument Okorafor might be making on the nature of war or diplomacy, but the fallout of certain major events and their non-resolutions left me wondering why certain themes were included in the first place. Okorafor seems to agree, as she describes the resolution of one of the major mysteries as “anti-climactic.” Not every plot point needs to have a grand reveal, but this choice felt like there wasn’t much effort to plan or solve this mystery from the start. Unfortunately, Binti: The Night Masquerade disappointed me in many of these areas.Īlthough Nnedi Okorafor’s elegant prose and imaginative ideas on culture and futurism are once again on display, there were several major plot points that seemed to dissolve into nothing. There were many reasons to look forward to the conclusion of this trilogy: we were left with an exciting cliffhanger, some new revelations about the nature of Binti’s past, plenty of forward momentum on some of the bigger mysteries left to tell, and strong developments in Binti’s maturity and self-realization. I enjoyed the Nebula and Hugo award-winning Binti very much and thought the sequel, Binti: Home, was even better.
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The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies is an essential benchmark publication for advanced students, researchers and practitioners across a wide range of disciplines including education, health, sociology, anthropology and development studies. The chapters will be organised across three volumes and twelve core thematic sections: Section 1: Reading Paulo Freire Section 2: Social Theories Section 3: Key Figures in Critical Pedagogy Section 4: Global Perspectives Section 5: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Section 6: Education and Praxis Section 7: Teaching and Learning Section 8: Communities and Activism Section 9: Communication and Media Section 10: Arts and Aesthetics Section 11: Critical Youth Studies and Section 12: Science, Ecology and Wellbeing. Bringing together a group of contributing authors from around the globe, the chapters will provide a unique approach and insight to the discipline by crossing a range of disciplines and articulating both philosophical and social common themes. 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INTRODUCTIONĪrmstrong's young adult novel, Sounder (1969), winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal, is an emotional tale of prejudice and recovery revolving around an African American sharecropper family struggling for survival in the deep South during the early twentieth century. For further information on his life and works, see CLR, Volume 1. The following entry presents criticism on Armstrong's young adult novel Sounder (1969) through 1998. (Full name William Howard Armstrong) American nonfiction writer, autobiographer, biographer, and author of young adult novels and picture books. The play was, in fact banned (no shocker there). At that time, English theater was regulated by the Lord Chamberlain, who had the job as censor. In 1893, two years after its writing, it was finally set to debut on the London stage starring the legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt. This is a beautiful play about an ugly, ugly, ugly thing. Wilde originally wrote the play in French because "here was another instrument I had listened to all my life, and I wanted once to touch this new instrument to see whether I could make any beautiful thing out of it" (Ellmann 373). As in the Biblical versions of the story, which appear in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, Salomé dances for her creepy-as-anything stepfather, Herod, and requests the head of John the Baptist (called Jokanaan in the play, after the Hebrew pronunciation of his name) in return. Salomé, written in 1891 by Oscar Wilde, is a one-act play based on the Biblical story of the beheading of John the Baptist. Here's a Salomé in a nutshell, served up on a (gulp) silver platter: girl meets boy, girl has the hots for boy, boy rejects girl, girl dances for her sleazy stepdad, girl has stepdad behead boy, girl makes out with boy's severed head. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone is precisely that sort of story, please understand the scope of the praise I am conveying. 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Seb Griffin showed up in Cedar Tree eight months ago and was hired on at Arlene's Diner as a cook. Her abrasive exterior has always been a way for her to hide behind the darkness and pain that she has endured, but a recent, violent attack and several disturbing phone calls have that tight hold on her emotions wavering. She has survived a less than perfect marriage, managing to move past it to run her own diner. Book Synopsis Arlene Bowers is as tough as nails. |