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7 hours ago · African American parents, educators, and authors have long cared about, discussed, and written literature for African American children, despite various barriers to this genre of literary production. 1 In her 1922 essay “Negro Literature for Negro Pupils,” author, editor, activist, and educator Alice Dunbar-Nelson discussed the importance of African American children’s literature.
7 hours ago · Footnote 7 ‘Circus’ acts (like Banks’ horse Morocco or ‘the Funamble Turk’); commedia dell’arte; popular culture, both in performance and instantiated in writing; arguably, even fables and travellers’ tales—all these are paratheatrical activities whose burgeoning intertheatrical presence can be felt in the plays and masques of the early seventeenth-century stage.
7 hours ago · And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers. Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince , presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork.
1 day ago · Africa-Press – Zambia. Chigozie Obioma is the Nigerian author of the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for their unique, folkloric tales of Nigerian life in decades past. Like them, his 2024 novel The Road to the Country is “tinged with fable and prophecy”. It’s […]
7 hours ago · Flight Risk is an upcoming American thriller film directed by Mel Gibson and written by Jared Rosenberg. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Topher Grace, and Michelle Dockery. Movie is scheduled to be released in the United States by Lionsgate Films on October 18, 2024.
7 hours ago · Get FREE shipping on The Orphic Voice by Elizabeth Sewell (author), David Schenck (writer of introduction), from wordery.com. "The Orphic Voice is a book about the relationship between poetry and our place in and knowledge of the natural world written by one of the most original, distinguished, and visionary literary
7 hours ago · Resembling a Black Mirror episode spun out to the length of a series, Katie Robbins’s 10-part fable is something of a curate’s egg. Flirting with horror and conspiracy thriller, laced throughout with mordant humour, its protagonist is Suzie (Rashida Jones), an American in Kyoto whose husband and son are seemingly killed in a plane crash.
