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BLACK MADNESS: : MAD BLACKNESS

BLACK MADNESS: : MAD BLACKNESS

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In Black Madness:: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's Fledgling as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics.
Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

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A comparative reading of the "literary" works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events.

The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late fourteenth-century classicist letters in England and an overlooked contemporary of Chaucer, has been neglected - which this book remedies. Following the texts, rather than individuals or institutions, it demonstrates both authors' participation in a previously unrecognized discursive field that spans Latinate clerical prose and secular vernacular poetry, opening for reexamination the "idea" of public literature in the late Middle Ages and recalibrating the terms of the conversation about the advent of humanistic textual practice in England. Providing a connected and comparative reading of Walsingham's works, alongside those of Chaucer, and taking both historical and literary approaches, the book extends our understanding of Chaucer through the exploration of his relationship to the clerical constituencies of London, Oxford, and monasteries in the South-East, and inserts Walsingham into the modern study of the reception of the Latin classics among the vernacular authors of his period.

Sylvia Federico is Professor of English and member of the Classical and Medieval Studies Program at Bates College.

Into the Presence

Into the Presence

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Received of Our Lord Christ Jesus, October 26, 2022

"Like the fall of rain upon the Earth does My touch of Love fall on everyone, believer and non-believer, while only those who know Me can feel its impress on their hearts.

In their very breath I Am - there to inspire, to uplift or tenderly provide comfort and the Surprise of Beauty.

Make it a practice to breathe My Name whenever a challenging moment occurs, it will bring a calmness and a clarity none other can give you.

'Jesus' to all that would take you from your highest endeavors.

'Jesus' to all that tries disturb your clearest state of Being.

'Jesus' to that which seeks to impair your progress and...

... dim the embracing frequencies of Heaven."

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To this all that can be added is, "Jesus Christ is Lord,

and God raised Him from the dead." Venite Adoramus and Hallelujah

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'Into the Presence' is the author's third book in a Trilogy that includes

'Our Brilliant Eternity' (2019) and 'Comedy and Grace' (2022). These and his

children's books are available thru, www.Ourbrillianteternity.com.

The Most

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