![]() ![]() After briefly outlining the history of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, and explaining the roots of the negative stereotypes attributed to Ukrainians, the author analyzes Hope’s War (2001), Skrypuch’s first Ukrainian-themed novel, and shows that by highlighting the unexpected similarities between the experiences of the protagonist’s grandfather, who during the Second World War was a member of the UPA, and the anxieties of contemporary teenagers, Skrypuch evokes empathy in mainstream and diasporic readers and enables the formation of next-generation memory. The author of this essay argues that by telling the suppressed, untold stories, hence bringing attention to the next-generation memory of the traumatic experiences of Ukrainian Canadians, Skrypuch puts them on the landscape of Canadian collective and cultural memory and challenges the false generalizations attributed to Ukrainians and Ukrainian Canadians in North America after the Second World War. Interestingly, Ukraine, her grandfather’s homeland, has remained the central theme in her works ever since the publication of the picturebook Silver Threads in 1996. Abstract: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s historical novels and picturebooks for young readers have gained significant commercial and critical recognition in North America. ![]()
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Gore Verbinski’s 2002 adaptation of Hideo Nakata’s 1998 horror film “Ring” (AKA “Ringu”) was a groundbreaking movie - “The Ring” is often credited as bringing about a newfound interest in Japanese horror amongst Western moviegoers. ![]() The history of Western adaptations of Japanese animation is filled with romantic partners turned into “cousins ” and love turned into “grace.” A backlash is only just now emerging around this kind of systematic erasure in anime, but considering the West’s extremely limited (and often distortedly fetishistic) views of Japanese media, I can’t help but wonder: where else do queer plots exist that Americans simply haven’t seen? ![]() Nay, come, let's go together.” - Hamlet, William ShakespeareĬW: Rape, murder, hate crimes, suicide, homophobia, transphobia, AIDSĪmerican Japanophiles have recently become aggressive about calling attention to the various ways that queer subtexts or storylines in Japanese media are completely eradicated when adapted for non-Japanese audiences. And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. ![]() ![]() ![]() More: 17 Halloween fails that seriously can’t be topped 4. The Horror at Camp Jellyjam is the book to read if you want to refresh your memory on this grossness. Not only do our heroes in the movie have to save their town from all the monsters, they have to do it before the Jellyjam eats them up. ![]() A viscous goo that will suck you up and not spit you out, it is faster than you’d expect. King Jellyjam is probably the most unexpected horror of them all. Worse, they’re even harder to get rid of. Remember the movie Gremlins? Yup, that’s about how chaotic their scene in the new Goosebumps movie becomes. But they first wreaked havoc in the Goosebumps book Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes. ![]() These little pests come to the big screen and are just as annoying as ever. Though the book takes place in Alaska, the movie makes this character work with a cleverly set-up ice skating rink as our heroes in the movie fight to keep the Abominable Snowman from tearing up their town of Greendale, Maryland. More: The top 10 best Halloween movies for kids 1. Though you’ll get to see almost every frightening monster that kept you up at night as a kid after a long night of reading and choosing the wrong path for yourself, these are some of the most noteworthy characters that Goosebumps has brilliantly reimagined. ![]() ![]() Koffi's power ultimately saves Ekon's life, but his choice to let her flee dooms his hopes of becoming a warrior.ĭesperate to redeem himself, Ekon vows to hunt the Shetani down and end its reign of terror, but he can't do it alone. In its midst, Ekon not only encounters the Shetani-a vicious monster that has plagued the city and his nightmares for nearly a century-but a curious girl who seems to have the power to ward off the beast. But on the night of his final rite of passage, a fire upends his plans. But the night her loved ones' own safety is threatened by the Zoo's cruel master, Koffi unleashes a power she doesn't fully understand-and the consequences are dire.Īs the second son of a decorated hero, Ekon is all but destined to become a Son of the Six-an elite warrior-and uphold a family legacy. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, she cares for its fearsome and magical creatures to pay off her family's debts and secure their eventual freedom. ![]() Magic doesn't exist in the broken city of Lkossa anymore, especially for girls like sixteen-year-old Koffi. ![]() ![]() ![]() But her father seems to have navigated Hearst’s kingdom uneasily, fighting nonstop with Morgan, and was dismissed after a decade. ![]() Like other children whose parents labored there, Mildred frequently visited this dreamland, with its 2,000-acre private zoo and constantly shifting human menagerie of celebrity guests. Yet as she researches her new creative crush, O’Meara’s delight swiftly turns to bewilderment and anger. ![]() The Gill-man was also, as O’Meara learned to her delighted amazement, the first - and at the time, only - movie monster to have been designed by a woman. In 1818, Mary Shelley created popular culture’s first and most enduring monster in “Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus.” Since then, “women have always been the most important part of monster movies,” as Mallory O’Meara states in “The Lady From the Black Lagoon,” her engaging and compelling, if uneven, book about artist Milicent Patrick, the unsung designer of another iconic monster.Īs a teenager, indie horror filmmaker O’Meara became captivated by Universal Pictures’ 1954 “Creature From the Black Lagoon.” Its eponymous amphibian star - a scaled, humanoid figure fondly known to generations of sci-fi geeks as the Gill-man - was the last of Universal’s classic monsters, joining the studio’s pantheon alongside Dracula, the Frankenstein monster and his Bride, and the Wolfman, among others. ![]() ![]() ![]() David worries about the intensity of his feelings, but he follows Giovanni to a new bar with Jacques and Guillaume. ![]() Jacques fails to attract the young Italian’s attention, but Giovanni and David form an instant connection. David follows Jacques to Guillaume’s gay bar where they meet the new barman, Giovanni. Without money or a place to stay, he meets with Jacques-an older gay man-and exploits his generosity. David strains his relationships with his aunt and father, eventually moving out and away to France after a drunken accident and time in the army.ĭavid’s account of France begins two years after his arrival. His fears of persecution begin to outweigh his desires, and he aggressively pushes Joey away, rebelling with alcohol and women to keep his attraction a secret. David’s first sexual encounter with a boy, Joey, excites and frightens him deeply. In Part 1, David recollects parts of his American childhood while living with his father and Aunt Ellen. ![]() From this frame narrative, David looks back at his youth in America and his recent years in France. His fiancée, Hella, broke off their engagement to return to America, and his lover, Giovanni, is set to be executed in the morning for murdering his employer, Guillaume. The novel opens in the present-day of the 1950s in the South of France where the first-person narrator, David, drinks heavily to dull the pain of his recent losses. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the one hand Nat thinks many bitter, contemporary thoughts about the Negro's imputed intellectual, spiritual and biological (but not sexual) inferiority on the other hand, the novel is full of Yassuh-Massa survival stereotypes and situations from a much older literature (i.e. In the language of the law he's just an "animate chattel" although he had acquired the "lineaments not just of literacy out of knowledge" through one master who had educated him to be emancipated, then sold him because of economic pressures. ![]() "Nigger preacher," self-designated prophet, Nat is primarily a man who for the last half of his thirty-one years has nursed a "pure and obdurate" hatred for white men (and a less pure desire for their women). ![]() In the fulminating first person of Nat Turner, Just before he is to be killed, this reviews at black heat the "ruction" he incited-a mass murder and rape in the Virginia of 1831. Few first novels promised so much for a new writer as Styron's Faulknerian Lie Down in Darkness with only one flawed major book in between, now sixteen years later it is difficult to relate this to the early book except for the emotional charge of some of the writing, most effective when descriptive. ![]() ![]() ![]() I sat back against the chair in his office and took in the silvering hair on his head, his smooth, unlined face and the Houston Pipers polo shirt he had on. “I need you, Sal,” Coach Gardner, the man who was asking the impossible of me, insisted. I understood all the individual words in the sentence, but putting them together in that moment was the equivalent of telling a blind person you wanted them to see something real quick. But my brain couldn’t wrap itself around the sentence that had come out of his mouth. ![]() The man sitting across the desk from me repeated himself. My backup any and every time I’ve ever needed you. Interior Formatting by Indie Formatting Services While reference might be made to actual historical events or existing locations, the names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. ![]() Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the author is unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. ![]() ![]() After studying both the English and French accounts of her story, he wrote, in a later essay, in 1904, that Joan of Arc was the “wonder of the ages stainlessly pure, in mind and heart, in speech and deed and spirit. Twain felt a true, deep admiration for the French saint - even though he was known to be a Presbyterian. The others needed no preparation and got none.” ![]() And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. ![]() Twain himself admitted this was not only his personal favorite but also his best-written book: “I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, and it is the best I know it perfectly well. Ryan states in his article for Patheos, Twain spent 12 years studying, researching and collecting information for his book, including the investigation that ended up clearing Joan of Arc’s name 25 years after her martyrdom. But his visits to France’s National Archive to read the transcripts of trial that took the saint to the stake are even less known.Īs Stephen K. ![]() The fact that Twain’s last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old, is a biography of Joan of Arc, is not so well known. ![]() ![]() ![]() Narrator Marin Ireland: "To you who talk too much and sing too loud and cry too often and love something in life more than you should." It immediately reminded me why I've loved the residents of Beartown so much, and it's a simply beautiful dedication. But I have to say, from the moment I pressed play and listened to the dedication of The Winners, I knew I was back in Beartown. It's been about four years for us here in the US since Us Against You came out, Book 2 in the series. TF: The Winners is a long-awaited conclusion to the Beartown series, which inspired an HBO series of the same name and follows a small hockey town's residents as they grapple with change, pain, hope, and redemption. ![]() Thank you so much for being here today.įredrik Backman: Well, thank you. And we're here today to talk about The Winners, the third and final book in the beloved Beartown trilogy. Tricia Ford: Hello everyone, this is Audible Editor Tricia Ford and with me is Fredrik Backman, bestselling author of listener favorites like A Man Called Ove and Anxious People. ![]() Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly ![]() |