Katherine Hill

Jill Richards

Sarah Chihaya

Merve Emre

In The Ferrante Letters, four critics create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Elena Ferrante's work and her fictional world, they strike a tone that falls between the seminar and the book club.

An Experiment in Collective Criticism

The Ferrante Letters

Ending their marriage after a revelation of infidelity, Abe and Cassandra evaluate the compromises, legacies, and losses of their relationship, from their first encounter at a San Francisco public health clinic through their daughter's acceptance into Harvard.

A Novel

The Violet Hour

Rob Parsons

'...for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health ...' Maybe those vows are fresh off our lips; maybe they're a rosy memory. Maybe we're still creating a life together - unpacking wedding gifts, decorating a home, savouring candlelit dinners - and we are giving that one special person the very best of us. Or maybe life has taken over - that challenging job, the struggle to pay the mortgage, a long-term illness - and more often our loved one seems to be getting the worst of us. Here is a gift to celebrate the joys and bring encouragement in that shared journey, with wise and witty insights and thoughtful reminders to help couples thrive. Amusing and touching, with laugh-out-loud cartoons which so accurately capture the highs and lows of domestic trials and bliss. A beautiful book to remind us to make the very most of the time we have with the most important person in the world.

The Really Really Busy Person's Book on Marriage

Mainstream media representations of Indigenous communities overwhelmingly follow a dual oversimplification: dichotomizing Indigenous peoples as ?good? or ?bad? according to normative settler-colonial constructs, or dismissing them altogether. With regards to Indigenous women, the tendency is toward the latter erasure. In many communities and social spaces, however, Indigenous women are visible and vocal leaders. In this thesis, I explore how young Indigenous women leaders take advantage of social media affordances to revitalize Indigenous communities and reconstruct Indigenous identity. Engaging the concept of Indigenous resurgence, I draw on interviews conducted with nine Indigenous women leaders from Yukon to elucidate what resurgent Indigenous leadership looks like in practice. I argue that the praxes of community building and identity representation that these nine women demonstrate on social media are everyday acts of Indigenous resistance and revitalization. By reclaiming and representing individual identities within the safe communities and contested spaces occupied through social media, I suggest that Indigenous women leaders empower their Indigenous social media audiences to reconstruct their own identities in turn. Moreover, I support the notion that everyday acts of representation have the cumulative power to subtly and slowly provoke profound discursive shifts. While these nine women’s social media interventions are primarily intended to empower other Indigenous peoples in determining personal identities, I conclude that they are also challenging mainstream media constructs and reshaping how non-Indigenous observers understand what it means to be Indigenous.

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