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Kim Gordon recommended Madame Bovary in Books (curated)

 
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert | 1970 | Essays
6.0 (5 Ratings)
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"The first feminist character in a novel. I love this period of French lit, reflecting the life of a bored wife trapped as a woman in a ‘suitable’ marriage as a way to maintain her inheritance. It was seen as introducing realism and the modern narrative."

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Maggie Nelson recommended Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America in Books (curated)

 
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
Saidiya Hartman | 1997 | Biography, History & Politics
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"Hartman eschews a focus on the more well-known, violent scenes of American racial subjugation to focus on the terrors and inequities that structured (and still structure) the slavery-to-emancipation period and narrative. A critical book for anyone aiming to understand how unfreedom masquerades as freedom."

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David McK (3496 KP) rated Man and Superman 100 Page Super Spectacular in Books

May 2, 2020  
Man and Superman 100 Page Super Spectacular
Man and Superman 100 Page Super Spectacular
Marv Wolfman | 2020 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Not so much a story about Superman, as it is about Clark Kent: this is set in (what I feel is) the most interesting period of his - fictional! - life, just after moving to Metropolis for the very first time and not long before he starts working for the Daily Planet and meets the key players in his story.

Yes, it's a period that has been covered before in both TV (Smallville) and print (eg: Superman: Birthright), but the great thing about the Big Blue Scout, The Man of Steel himself is that his character - while superficially boring - can fit into any time and any context.