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... a fox is a wolf that brings flowers ...
LINES OF THE DAY
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15
". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
What Do We Dare?
- Foxessa
- Vulpine, canine, feline, porcine & equine avatars. Gone to heaven Gone to hell Gone to jail Gone to work Gone to school Gone to lunch Gone to bed Gone to bad Gone to pee Gone to earth. Gone Gone Gone. Fox's earth is Blue Gotham City. Shorter sojourns are spent in other, more dangerous, locations.
My Historical Research Skills On Display
- The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry; October 2015, Chicago Review Press - Lawrence Hill Books Imprint
- Postmamboism: Collected Writings (2011)
- Do Not Fear Death: Music And The Haitian Earthquake (January 2011)
- The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans (August, 2009)
- The World That Made New Orleans: Spanish Silver to Congo Square (January, 2008)
- Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo (July, 2004)
Some Of Za Fox's Published Works
- The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry; October, 2015, Chicago Review Press - Lawrence Hill Books imprint
- Editor of the short-listed Philip K. Dick Award original anthology, Not of Woman Born.
- From The Della Stories: The Kingdom By the Lake: "Dark Moon Murmuration", "Made By Hand", "Mrs. Langdon's Diary -OR- They Carry It Too Far".
- Neb Short Story Finalist, "Flower Kiss".
- Novels: The Horsegirl; The Stalking Horse; Stallion Queen.
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- American Scholar
- Asking the Wrong Questions
- Audacity of Despair
- Books Are Weapons
- BookViewBlog
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- Cannon Ball
- Categories - Historical Fiction
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- Civil War Memory
- Dead Confederates
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- Fusion Net Spanish/English
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- Historical Novel Society Review
- History News Network
- Latino Rebels
- MSU- Papers of Ulyssess S. Grant
- New York History Blog
- Of Blog
- Orbis Africa
- Reading the Past
- Richard Parks
- Shakespeare Blog
- Smithsonian History Blog
- Story & Truth
- This Cruel War
- Way of Improvement; American History
- What Is Historical Fiction
- York Daily Record
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5 comments:
Cockburn is all over the place politically at times, like his buddy Hitch. This time I agree with him.
Obama showed no leadership in the senate. Next to Bush, is setting a low bar to compare someone to.
The Democratic and Republican Party, is one party with two right wings.
I follow Lebanon closely. My blog team member Marxist from Lebanon analyzes the situation very well. Obama's ideas can only further divide the country. The Lebanese army is unpredictable. Much of recent problems could have been avoided, if Bush kept quiet, instead pf supporting one side.
Obama isn't a man of the left. He operates within the system. This is inherently conservative, even right-wing, to Cockburn. But it shouldn't come as any surprise that a major-party nominee is not hell-bent on changing our form of government. As desirable as that may be, some of us will take the best we can get now because there are immediate problems that we'd rather see addressed by Barack Obama than John McCain.
Incidentally, I met Cockburn once. I was expecting a fire-breather and got exactly the opposite: A kind, attentive man who listened. The opposite of Christopher Hitchens, who even before he went nuts came across as a stereotypical poseur: Unshaven, leaning forward with an immensely long ash dangling from an eternal cigarette, constantly running a hand through unkempt hair, and his own best audience.
Well, he was far far far down as my first choice. But my first choice never got his bus further than about half way out of the parking garage. Murdoch and the corporatist elite that have strangled this nation said they'd make sure of that, and they did.
Love, C.
When Vaquero was in Portland, on his way to Seattle, back last spring, he stayed with AC's Counterpunch partner, Jeffrey St. Clair, and his wife, who is library director, I believe at the university. Jeffrey does all the work for Counterpunch, it seems.
Haven't met AC, though it could/might happen, as Vaquero writes things for them now and again.
Love, C.
The worst thing O's done for himself by turning so sharply right is that people like me, who can actually persuade and inform others to vote for him, or at least not vote against him -- we no longer have the passion-energy to do that.
Love, C.
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