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The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed\u27s Wild and the Art of Memoir
No full textHow did Cheryl Strayed turn a solo hike into an inspirational memoir, beloved by millions? Memoirist and professor Alden Jones sets out to explore this question. But when a sudden personal crisis occurs while she is writing, Jones realizes she must confront some difficult truths, both in her life and on the page. The Wanting Was a Wilderness is a profoundly original work that blends criticism, craft analysis, and a memoir of Jones’s own time in the wilderness. The result is a celebration of Wild and a map of our long path to self-discovery
“Connecting with Fanon: Postcolonial Problematics, Irish Connections, and the Shack Dwellers Rising in South Africa”
No full textA discussion of connections between Fanon and the Irish struggle and the shack dwellers movement in South Afric
Infinite Latin squares: neighbor-balance and orthogonality
No full textA mathematics research paper in the subfield of combinatorics, more specifically infinite design theory. The paper develops a spatially coherent generalization of latin squares of finite order to arbitrary infinite orders. This allows the investigation of neighbor-balance properties in the infinite setting. It is shown that squares with strong neighbour-balance properties exist at every infinite order using techniques from set theory
Projecting Nation: South African Cinemas after 1994
No full textIn 1994, not long after South Africa made its historic transition to multiracial democracy, the nation’s first black-majority government determined that film had the potential to promote social cohesion, stimulate economic development, and create jobs. In 1999 the new National Film and Video Foundation was charged with fostering a vibrant, socially engaged, and self-sufficient film industry. What are the results of this effort to create a truly national cinematic enterprise? Projecting Nation: South African Cinemas after 1994 answers that question by examining the ways in which national and transnational forces have shaped the representation of race and nation in feature-length narrative fiction films. Offering a systematic analysis of cinematic texts in the context of the South African film industry, author Cara Moyer-Duncan analyzes both well-known works like District 9 (2009) and neglected or understudied films like My Shit Father and My Lotto Ticket (2008) to show how the ways filmmakers produce cinema and the ways diverse audiences experience it—whether they watch major releases in theaters in predominantly white suburban enclaves or straight-to-DVD productions in their own homes—are informed by South Africans’ multiple experiences of nation in a globalizing world
Birthright
No full textAbraham’s highly anticipated debut poetry collection constructs a dialogue in which “every pronoun is a Free Palestine.” Birthright is a book that balances the weight of place. The pride and shame and worth of homeland. Palestine, a homeland under siege and under scrutiny from a world that doesn’t occupy its borders. Moving through invented and broken poetic forms, Birthright pulls together all corners of the author’s pride in home, but also a desire to understand the violent cycles of the American machinery of war
Inclusion of signing deaf and hard of hearing students: Factors that facilitate v. Challenge access and participation
No full textSummarizes findings from a study examining deaf or hard of hearing students\u27 access to content and communication and student\u27s participation in a general education classroom setting
Nonprofit Board Membership and the Gender Gap
No full textAccording to a study conducted by BoardSource and reported in, Leading with Intent: 2017 National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices (Board-Source, 2017), 72% of nonprofit CEO/Executive Director positions are held by females, while only 48% are Executive Board Members and 42% are Board Chairs. The discrepancy between the number of board positions held by women versus staff leadership positions has been the subject of many recent publications. Reviewing academic and industry literature, this paper explores the relationship between an all-male board’s choice of self-assessment tools and its decision-making processes related to creating a gender inclusive board. This paper provides additional insight by applying communication theoretical frameworks to analyze all-male board decision-making processes which ultimately affect recruitment outcomes
“The Triple Antagonist of the Police, Policing, and Policy
No full textReview of Audrey Wasser’s The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary For
