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Identity Politics in Star Wars

John C. McDowell

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George Lucas spoke about the didactic role of cinema and about his own work being presented through...

Emma Watson recommended Hunger in Books (curated)

Hunger

Roxane Gay | 2017 | Biography

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"Roxane Gay describes her book Hunger as a ‘memoir about my body’. It traverses many of the issues surrounding our human bodies, the sexual experiences we have, our relationship with food, how we feel about our own bodies and the difference gender has to play on a body…While parts of the book are difficult to read, it highlights the very real damage done by sexual violence and puts you in the mind and body of someone that has to move through the world in a different way. A small insight or perspective I feel grateful for now having and understanding a little bit better."

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Joyce Carol Oates recommended A Constellation of Vital Phenomena in Books (curated)

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Anthony Marra | 2014 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"In a politically fractious America in which “bearing witness” has been attacked as a motive for art in recent years, emerging writers have nonetheless written boldly across divides of class, ethnic identity, and gender. Outstanding among these has been Anthony Marra, a young American author whose first two books are set mainly in Russia and the former Soviet Union. In A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Marra’s debut novel, three survivors of the Second Chechen War band together in an abandoned hospital. In 2015’s The Tsar of Love and Techno, linked short stories follow various characters’ dreams and dashed hopes from the 1930s to the present, and then beyond."

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