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Assisted Living: “Acting Naturally” in Room 335 | Age Culture Humanities
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Assisted Living: Acting Naturally in Room 335. Documentary film and television have played, and continue to play, a major role in shaping public conversations about standards of care today for those in later life who are no longer able to live independently. The starkest example in the UK in recent years was the BBC Panorama documentary Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed. Was shown at film festivals in the USA, Australia, and the Netherlands, and won Best Picture and Best Documentary at the 2006 Phoenix ...
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Eve Escapes: Ruins and Life by Hélène Cixous | Age Culture Humanities
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Eve Escapes: Ruins and Life. Reviewed by Cecily Davey. Eve Escapes: Ruins and Life. Hélène Cixous. Trans. Peggy Kamuf. Cambridge UK and Malden, MA: Polity, 2012. Pp. 208. $59.95 (hardcover) $19.95 (paperback). The concept of writing the body has long been an essential element of Hélène Cixous’s work. Founder and former director of the. It is the aging body of the mother that provides inspiration for a reflection on the process of growing old. This. The novel’s first pages thus emphasize the transformatio...
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The Literacy Narrative of Chadwick’s The First Grader | Age Culture Humanities
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The Literacy Narrative of Chadwick’s. By Lauren Marshall Bowen. While examination of narratives written by and about older adults is, by now, recognized as crucial to the critical work of age studies, the overlapping projects of age studies and studies of literate activity (including writing) have not yet been sufficiently integrated. Through analysis of The First Grader. Acknowledges how literacy and learning contribute to, and are implicated by, the creation and circulation of the meanings of old age.
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Removal Act: Native Preacher | Waccamaw
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A journal of contemporary literature. No 16: Spring 2016. News & Features. Removal Act: Native Preacher. A cradle still warm a bubbling pot with no lid So swiftly did. Government troops sweep down that the Cherokees hardly found. Time for a last look at home. Locked inside the camp at Rattlesnake Springs styed unwatered. Unfed muddy night sky star-pricked lit by a smear of moon David. With splinters in his hand tracing his sore palm with his finger tracing. Standing in the river he will read a revelation...
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Editor’s Note | Waccamaw
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A journal of contemporary literature. No 16: Spring 2016. News & Features. A Welcome To Waccamaw Issue 16. Dear Readers, Welcome to the sixteenth issue of Waccamaw. The sixteenth issue of Waccamaw sat us up out of the…. Editor: Jessica Lee Richardson Founding Editor: Dan Albergotti Fiction Editor: Jason Ockert Nonfiction Editor: Colin Burch Poetry Editor: Hastings Hensel…. A Welcome to Waccamaw Issue 15. A Welcome to Waccamaw Issue 14. Cara Blue Adams, Editor. A Welcome to Waccamaw Issue 13. Welcome to t...
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Authors | Waccamaw
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A journal of contemporary literature. No 16: Spring 2016. News & Features. A Reading from the. Tell Me a Story. Priority Seating for People with Disabilities and Seniors. Talking Sophocles with Jason Koo at Jack Bistro. Apple River in Star Prairie. Anna B. Sutton. Wish I Had a River. Fountain of Diana at the Louvre. A Mother’s Daughter. For Nothing Sounds as Much Like the Lost World of the Womb as the Motors of Our Machines. A Welcome to Waccamaw Issue 14. A Welcome to Waccamaw Issue 13. Lately a new web.
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Poetry | Waccamaw
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A journal of contemporary literature. No 16: Spring 2016. News & Features. A Reading from the. Begin with a brackish union. Then breathe space into salt. Then peel away the shin. Or start with a page…. Double Memory with Train. Once, my mother cradled my head to her chest & told me how she spread loose change on the tracks…. The sandpiper stares at the pickled sky, whetted for tornadoes. Wind planes off the plants, atrophied in their pots, abreast…. After the sun goes down our imitation. A stayed partiti...
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Museum Without Walls | Waccamaw
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A journal of contemporary literature. No 16: Spring 2016. News & Features. On the flight, she’d overheard a woman talking about a storm coming to Korea. Kate was worried. She could be stuck in it, and perhaps she shouldn’t have come. Kate was certain she wasn’t a good traveler; she preferred to stay in one place, where she was. Unlike her sister Betsy, Kate didn’t need to roam the earth, forever drifting. In search of what, anyway? Is it a boy or a girl? Only after Kate looked away from the surprise of B...
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What They Left Behind | Waccamaw
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A journal of contemporary literature. No 16: Spring 2016. News & Features. What They Left Behind. A carpet stain that will never come out,. A toy fire truck with no wheels,. A doll with one arm, naked,. One eye permanently closed,. Four extra squares of kitchen linoleum tile,. A worn broom, straw tips blackened with soot,. An overlooked drawer containing. A tin box of assorted Band-Aids. With only the smallest size left,. One leaky D-cell battery, some rubber washers,. Twist ties, bottle brush, a box.
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