Mobilizing a low-tech, small-scale computational approach to Zone One’s distribution of explicit and implicit racial signifiers, I argue that attention to the novel’s patterns of form and language reveals a racial grammar lurking beneath its chiefly unmarked lexicon. the novel's latent race-conscious ideological program). its zombie plot and predominantly race-free lexicon) and what the majority of the novel’s critics have intuited to be its literary-allegorical core (i.e. Inspired by recent computationally assisted close readings undertaken by critics including Ryan Cordell, Paul Fleming, Michael Gavin, Matthew Jockers, Andrew Piper, Hoyt Long, Richard So, and Ted Underwood, this essay devises an account of Colson Whitehead’s genre-bending zombie thriller Zone One (2011) based on visualizations of the text’s lexical patterns, arguing that such an approach yields explanatory purchase on the relation between Zone One’s genre-fiction surface (i.e.
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If you’ve been following my blog for a while then you know I always say I tend to stay away from YA romantic-contemporary because it’s just not usually my thing. Trigger warnings: anxious thoughts, panic attacks ** I’m participating in a Blog Tour hosted by Pan Macmillan and received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. To Rhys, it doesn’t matter that Steffi doesn’t talk, and as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she’s falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it. He’s deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she’s assigned to look after him. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. S teffi has been a selective mute for most of her life – she’s been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. Their love isn’t a lightning strike, it’s the rumbling roll of thunder. Steffi doesn’t talk, but she has so much to say. 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After a giant sinkhole swallows much of his ramshackle school, Paul is able to transfer to another school where, with some parental collusion, he can keep his legal status a secret. Paul's thick lenses don't keep him from being a first-rate soccer goalie, but they do make him, willy-nilly, a "handicapped" student and thus, according to his new coach, ineligible to play. A legally blind seventh-grader with clearer vision than most wins acceptance in a new Florida school as his football-hero older brother self-destructs in this absorbing, multi-stranded debut. Pam Bachorz raised so many questions in Drought, but very few of them were answered. The recurring question for me in Drought was: “What is going on?” In most books there is often a sentence or question that keeps coming up for me as I read them. She, alone, possess the secret ingredient that makes the Water so special–her blood–and it’s the one thing that the Congregation cannot live without.ĭrought is the haunting story of one community’s thirst for life, and the dangerous struggle of the only girl who can grant it. Escape with Ford would be so simple.īut if Ruby leaves, her community is condemned to certain death. When Ruby meets Ford–an irresistible, kind, forbidden new Overseer–she longs to run away with him to the modern world, where she could live a normal teenage live. Escape from living as if it is still 1812, the year they were all enslaved. Escape from the backbreaking work of gathering Water. Escape from slaver Darwin West and his cruel Overseers. Ruby dreams of escaping the Congregation. (Cover picture courtesy of Pam Bachorz’s website.) The majority of the book is sourced from brown& s twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work with movement groups. 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