Splattered Ink


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In-depth and refreshingly readable, Splattered Ink is a bold analysis of postfeminist gothic, a literary genre that continues to jar readers, reject happy endings, and find powerful new ways to talk about violence against women. Sarah E. Whitney explores the genre's challenge to postfeminist assumptions of women's equality and empowerment. The authors she examines--Patricia Cornwell, Jodi Picoult, Susanna Moore, Sapphire, and Alice Sebold--construct narratives around socially invisible and physically broken protagonists who directly experience consequences of women's ongoing disempowerment. Their works ask readers to inhabit women's suffering and to face the uncomfortable, all-too-denied fact that today's women must navigate lives fraught with risk. Whitney's analysis places the authors within a female gothic tradition that has long given voice to women's fears of their own powerlessness. But she also reveals the paradox that allows the genre to powerfully critique postfeminism's often sunshiney outlook while uneasily coexisting within the same universe.




Safety and Violence in Elementary and Secondary Schools


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The House on Pig Island


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Jack and his twin sisters escape from the awful problems of their new school to a deserted house on Pig Island where there is a mystery to solve. Fun for 9 to 12 year olds.







Documenting Trauma in Comics


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Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics’ documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts? The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generative force that has become central to its remembrance, documentation, and study.







Tried, Tested and True Poets from Across the Globe


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Renee’s Poems with Wings Are Words in Flight has opened the door to allow mutually inspired poets from across the globe to weigh in and collaborate, bringing the best of the best prolific prose within this book. Thus, it makes them tried, tested, and true poets changing the world, one poem at a time.




Creation Of Scripts


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Tamil is one of the oldest languages around the world, with a rich heritage. Evidences are found that the origin of the language dates back to some 2000 years ago. Researches have proved that the Tamil society of poets and dramatists formed a group called Sangam which concentrates mainly on the growth of the Tamil language. The precious literary works in Tamil language are translated to various world languages. This, anthology is an effort to read and translate the masterpieces of eminent writers of Tamil literature. The initiative of translating the scripts is the learning outcome of the nuances the co-authors learnt from their course. Aa a part of the curriculum the co-authors of this anthology are prescribed in the under-graduation program a course titled ' Tamil Literary Writings in Translation. The motivated band of co-authors skillfully translated and recreated the short stories and poems of stalwarts of Tamil into English without changing its originality. This compilation will present you a rainbow of Creations with varied themes. A note of welcome from the compiler to appreciate the translating skill of coauthors




Researching Education


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This book is aimed at researchers in education who are looking for the take up of bold visions in educational research through visual, digital and spatial knowing. Drawing from research conducted by experienced researchers and graduate students in Australia, through visual methods the book presents work that is at the forefront of working with innovative qualitative research methodologies theoretically and practically. The book shows the possibilities, problems and researcher responses to working with image through complex theoretical territory such as Actor network theory, Deleuzian theory, feminist and poststructuralist methods, positioning theory and narrative theory. All chapters have in common, a response to issues that broadly can be defined as the issues of education that prove to be deep seated and troubling and show a concern for critically orientated scholarship. The book moves across the stages of education from early childhood, middle years, secondary schooling to higher education. A provocative and lively introduction frames the field of visual methods for education resarchers. With visualtiy in mind, issues such as researcher and participant identity, what is contributed or lost when we democratise the research process and ethial issues of working globally are discussed. By getting underneath the cover story of educational research, the contribution is an accessible and concise account of educational research that confronts current issues of curriculum and pedagogy and is useful for those new to qualitative research and visual methods.