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Greyhound, 1984, Lisa K. Sandlin

Writer’s Workshop Faculty Publications

In "Greyhound, 1984," fiction writer Lisa Sandlin grabs and holds onto the reader with terse, rhythmic language, unique imagery, and a story that's both unsentimental and poignant.

Just Across Town, Robert Weaver

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Math Stories: Learning And Doing Mathematics Through Fiction Writing, Frederick Chen, Janna Raley

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In this paper, we advocate the writing of mathematical fiction (i) as an aid for students in learning mathematics, and (ii) to engage students in doing mathematics.

Eyeth: A Novel For The Deaf, Kelsey Young

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Kelsey Young’s science fiction novel Eyeth, to use Tom Humphries’ phrase, is important for deaf literature because it exemplifies “culture talking” not the proof (“talking culture”) of a monolithic culture apart from the mainstream but complex deaf life on its own terms. It also focuses on a wide range of deaf people involved in intra-­deafcentric conflicts; deaf sub-­‐groups include a range of communication preferences (speaking, cued speech, signing) as well as multiple physical differences (deaf-­blind, cerebral palsy, wheelchair users) though not ethnic diversity. A critical introduction to the novel explains that science fiction allows the creation of a world that …

Da Vinci's Ristorante Tustin, California, Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Creative Works

Did you know Leonardo da Vinci was a secret restaurateur?

All Begins To Bloom: Stories, Daniel Drew Schlegel

Dissertations and Theses

A collection of short stories, All Begins to Bloom follows a range of young protagonists living in the greater Los Angeles area. In a time when even the most underground lifestyles are commodified, when Independent media is just another genre, when every mode of living has seemingly been exhausted, these characters struggle to forge an identity in the face of adulthood.

From a group of surfers reeling from a careless death ("The Pier") to a young artistic couple brought together by the will to overcome an eating disorder ("All Begins to Bloom"), these stories explore the hollow promises among various …

When Sweet Me Meets Experience And Pink Panther In High Heels, Christina Raiford

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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The Intertwining In The Museum, Latoya Pickett

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Surfacing, Kelsey Mooney

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Sand’S Reprisal, Chukwudi Mogbo

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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A Hamtramck Horror, Gerald Messier

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Dogs Galore, Bonnie Kelly

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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David Hershel Johnson, Laci Turner

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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The Hidden Truth Of Owensville, Gerald Messier

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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A Stranger’S Revenge, Maeghan Bradshaw

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Cancer Spaceship, Christian Powell

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Dialogue In Fiction, Tracy A. Townsend

The Short Story

This close-reading and discussion-oriented lesson, which takes between sixty and seventy minutes, uses Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” as a model of how dialogue advances plot and develops character in fiction. It is useful in literature classrooms for its emphasis on drawing inferences from text and in creative writing contexts for teaching effective dialogue writing. This lesson is suitable for grades 9-12.

¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 11, June 2013, Hostos Community College Library

¡Escriba!

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Violence, Altérité De L’Intérieur Et Citoyenneté De Seconde Zone, Hervé Tchumkam

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article proposes an examination of violence in the French banlieues where riots erupted in the fall of 2005. Building on the observation that violence seems to have become the main determiner for banlieues inhabitants in the media and political discourses, the author scrutinizes Mohamed Razane’s Dit Violent (2006) in order to understand the status of young banlieue dwellers as outsiders within who are caught between second-class citizenship and exclusion from the French public political sphere. It is the contention of the author that the public construction of an enemy within imply shadows a socio-political reality, which is the invisibility …

Du Chaâba À La Banlieue : Espaces Et Négation De L’Autre Chez Azouz Begag Et Thomté Ryam, Lise Mba Ekani

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article concerns itself with the representations of space in the novels of Azouz Begag and Thomté Ryam. The author observes that from the chaâba to the banlieue, one can assert that the distribution of space suggests the exclusion and the negation of France’s postcolonial other. Ultimately, the article contends that if Beur fiction was pivotal in shedding light on injustice, the banlieue novel blends aesthetics and politics to call for a different France, one in which assimilation and difference can be transcended.