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Pushing Hard: An Excerpt From Bringing Progress To Paradise, Jeff Rasley
Pushing Hard: An Excerpt From Bringing Progress To Paradise, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Excerpt from the author’s book Bringing Progress to Paradise (ISBN 9781573244824).
Jeff Rasley: Mountains Of Meaning, Pam Richards, Jeff Rasley
Jeff Rasley: Mountains Of Meaning, Pam Richards, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Interview with Pam Richards for Seeds Born to Light about the author’s experience in the Himalayas and Basa Village.
Yoshimura's Ghost: Essays On Rural Japan, Jen Cullerton Johnson
Yoshimura's Ghost: Essays On Rural Japan, Jen Cullerton Johnson
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Yoshimura’s Ghost: Essays on Rural Japan is a collection of six essays exploring the cultural phenomena and daily life of rural Japan. The collection represents my experiences of living as an educator, wife, and mother living in a post 9/11 world. Although not chronological, the essays flow episodically and illustrate examples of the social and cultural concepts that struck me as elements of otherness. Some of the essays in this collection examine the parallels between the exclusion and isolation I felt in Japan as compared to other marginalized groups. Several of the essays describe the culture of Japanese schooling, perhaps …
Marais Des Cygnes, John Michael Orr
Marais Des Cygnes, John Michael Orr
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis documents the concept, process, installation, and specific pieces in my Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Marais des Cygnes. The Marais des Cygnes is a river in southeast Kansas and western Missouri, near a Bleeding Kansas-era massacre site of the same name. The river is notorious for flash flooding, was named by French explorers and translates to Marsh of the Swans. The work is about a fictional wandering car thief and alcoholic named Vernon, the bad guy in my novel. Vernon is obsessed with the distant past, particularly the time before the Louisiana Purchase and the Louisiana of …
Author Spotlight 64: Jeff Rasley, Jeff Rasley
Author Spotlight 64: Jeff Rasley, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Guest blog post for Morgen Bailey’s Writing Blog on the author’s influences and process.