Critical Affect explores the emotional complexity of critique and maps out its enduring value for the turn to affect and ontology. Through a series of vivid close readings, Ashley Barnwell shows how suspicion and methods of decoding remain vital to both civic and academic spaces, where concerns about precarity, transparency, and security are commonplace and the question of how we verify the truth is one of the most polarising of our age. Weaving together both the critical and affective dimensions of 'paranoid reading', Critical Affect opens crucial questions about the ethics of practicing theory and offers a new route into the critical study of affect.a
This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. With attention to the political potential of family histories, Reckoning with the Past argues that authors’ often autobiographical works enable us to uncover, confront, and revise national mythologies. An important contribution to the emerging global conversation about multidirectional memory and the need to attend to the effects of colonisation, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary field of scholarly readers.
This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. With attention to the political potential of family histories, Reckoning with the Past argues that authors’ often autobiographical works enable us to uncover, confront, and revise national mythologies. An important contribution to the emerging global conversation about multidirectional memory and the need to attend to the effects of colonisation, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary field of scholarly readers.
Critical Affect explores the emotional complexity of critique and maps out its enduring value for the turn to affect and ontology. Through a series of vivid close readings, Ashley Barnwell shows how suspicion and methods of decoding remain vital to both civic and academic spaces, where concerns about precarity, transparency, and security are commonplace and the question of how we verify the truth is one of the most polarising of our age. Weaving together both the critical and affective dimensions of 'paranoid reading', Critical Affect opens crucial questions about the ethics of practicing theory and offers a new route into the critical study of affect.a
Press play on this compilation of bonus content from the Rock Chick Series by Kristen Ashley. The stories of the Hot Bunch and Rock Chicks continue in the hero’s point of view for one more chapter in each book. What happens when Lee and Indy run into Cherry at the Mexican Joint? When Eddie first sees his purple bathroom? What’s Christmas like with Herb and Trish? What was going on with Boo after Jules got shot? Find out all of this and more in the Rock Chick Bonus Tracks, now available in one anthology.
The cute boy thinks you're French. Go with it. Wear your hair in a French twist. Eat French Fries, French toast, etc. Tell him the truth -- eventually. Chloe and Riley Carlson ... So much to do ... So little time.
This book includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of Scotland and Wales. The book gives full details of the lives of the rulers as well as their wives, consorts, pretenders, usurpers and regents and is a geographical guide to where all Britain's monarchs lived, ruled and died including their palaces, estates and resting places.
Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the British Isles - even royals we think most familiar are revealed in a new and sometimes surprising light. This revised and shortened edition of The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens includes biographies of the royals of recorded British history, plus an overview of the semi-legendary figures of pre-history and the Dark Ages - an accessible source for students and general readers.
Not too many could say they did their time in ease as Corey Night could. He had the beautiful and sophisticated Dollie Benson stay by his side. Little did she know though that Tenosha Rivers was waiting behind the scenes to get exactly what Dollie had her man. But Corey is now a freeman and this is leading him back to the streets proving once again that action speaks louder than words. He realizes that the fast life is what he has been missing the most. With money calling him all over the place and the dope game changing along with the players involved in it, he knows that the D-boy life is what he is on and he needs a full fledge D-girl to play that position no matter the cost. As the crazy tale of drugs, lies, drama and deceit unfolds, the weak minded often manipulates the situation to what they really want to believe. The two women go head to toe in a battle to claim what each feels is rightfully hers. And when things start to get too ugly and when you're no longer able to change a situation, then you are challenged to change yourself. What goes up must come down and nothing good comes from bad when this street drama story has you saying Aint That A Bitch.
Mary-Kate and Ashley have to find out who's behind a seriously mean school website called 'Beauty and the Beast' in this super Sweet Sixteen story. Ashley runs a school website called 'Love Link' and it's a huge success. The students love it, and lots of them find dates using it. But then a sinister website called 'Beauty or Beast' appears, it looks just like Ashley's 'Love Link' with photos people have sent to Ashley for her website but instead of searching for partners, surfers are invited to say if they think people are good-looking or ugly, and what they think about them. It's really mean and because it looks so much like Ashley's site, everyone thinks she's behind it! Worse, the principal tells Ashley she has to close down her website, even though she protests that everyone likes it. With a little help from their friends, and some careful detective work, they find out who's behind the 'Beauty or Beast' site, Gene, a computer nerd. He says it was a joke that got out of hand, and he's glad it's been stopped; but even though he confesses, the principal still won't let Ashley's 'Love Link' reappear. The girls are going to have to take action - even if it means involving the whole school!
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