36 research outputs found
Conversations with authors: Leslie Williams
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Leslie Williams about her life and the inspiration for her work
Book Review: The Facts of Life. . And More: Sexuality and Intimacy for People with Intellectual Disabilities
No full textAuthor: Leslie Walker-Hirsch
Reviewer: Rhonda S. Black
Publisher: Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing, 2007
Paper, ISBN: 978-155766714-4, 320 pages
Cost: $29.95 USD
Available from http://www.brookespublishing.com or www.amazon.co
Growing Against the Grain: Confronting White Supremacy and Patriarchy in \u3ci\u3eGardens in the Dunes\u3c/i\u3e
No full textGardens in the Dunes is a novel from 2008 by indigenous author Leslie Marmon Silko about gardening, family, and the looming threat of White, male hegemony in the late 1800\u27s. By analyzing the characters and the garden settings, a pattern of various resistances and oppositions to this colonial violence emerges that I believe is useful for a case study in making meaningful strides in confronting contemporary support for white patriarchy
Shaving: A Short Film
No full textThe short film Shaving is an adaptation of a simple yet powerful short story of the same name by the Welsh author Leslie Norris. Upon first reading it, this story resonated with me; its beautiful message about preparing for and coping with loss is important and can be helpful to the human experience. The visual nature of Norris’ writing inspired me. I wanted to bring this story to a wider audience. Adapting the story to short film made this possible; it also provided me and several other film students with an opportunity to apply knowledge gained in the classroom and from projects in a practical setting
Inheritance: Stories of Memory and Discovery
No full textInheritance: Stories of Memory and Discovery weaves together pictures and stories in tribute to how memory and memorabilia can still link us to even a devastated past. Each of the six illustrated chapters conveys a single Jewish family¹s journey before, during, and after the Holocaust. Artist and author Leslie Starobin interviewed, among others, the son of a mortar operator in the Jewish Brigade of the British army, the daughter of a decorated Soviet military officer, and a child survivor from Kraków who commemorated his war heroes in a sketchbook. Starobin composed still-life montages from ³the things they carried² and passed down to their children and grandchildren.https://digitalcommons.framingham.edu/books/1236/thumbnail.jp
Valiant Consequences
No full textWar and conflict are significant events that hold a reasonable possibility to alter countries and their cultural populations. These transforming effects can come in many forms, ranging from mental trauma to the abandonment or modification of culture and its ideals. In this illustration, perhaps no group has endured the same everlasting detrimental effects as the Native Americans and their underlying consequences stemming from World War 2. These detriments can be seen in the form of erratic drunken or violent behavior and forgotten traditions. On the contrary, these effects may have at one time been diminished and replaced by the gratitude of their perceived former oppressor. In her work Ceremony, Indigenous author Leslie Marmon Silko has displayed these differentiating effects. Thus the goal is to outline the varying effects of war on the Native American culture and individuals in Ceremony
Post-Transsexual Pastoral
No full textThis chapter offers a definitive example of ecological thinking in contemporary queer fictions. It reads American author Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues (1992) alongside two narratives set in the Caribbean: Jamaican American Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven (1987) and Trinidadian Canadian Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night (1998). These novels depict what an “organic transgenderism:” a spontaneous, noncommodified, and self-directed process likened to the life-cycle changes of plants and animals. The chapter claims that they thereby challenge the common view of gender transitioning as an “unnatural” medical intervention. Moreover, through their depictions of organic transgenderism, these novels stage, and thus help facilitate, a shift in the 1990s from the older sexological model of “transsexuality” to the current community-derived umbrella term of “transgenderism.” Finally, this chapter demonstrates how a queer ecocritical lens can help us trace the transnational circulation of queer ecological thinking.</p
Compassion and resistance: an eco-conscious readingin The Turquoise Ledge: a memoir
No full textThis paper explores how the relationship of care from a feminist perspective contributes to an ecofeminist’s ethicthat transcend the universalization of a gender ideal to be employed in human and non-human practices in the environment. The non-fiction work, The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir, represents a polyphonic narrative, as the author, Leslie Marmon Silko, recalls the Knowledge of her ancestors from the Laguna Pueblo ethnic group regarding the preservation of the Earth and its inhabitants. In this sense, The Turquoise Ledge primarily portrays the need for harmony between the elementsthat make up nature, including human beings. Thus, through Silko’s experiences, we present how the feminist ethic of carecan safeguard a commitment to sustainability and otherness in relations with the planet’s various ecosystems
