Category Archives: Native American language

Stuart Hall and vernacular modernity

Posted on February 14, 2014 by wcd2

February 14, 2014 The passing of Stuart Hall makes me go back to his seminal essay, “Negotiating Caribbean Identities,” where he talks about “vernacular modernity” as the “modernity of the blues, of gospel music, of hybrid black music in its … Continue reading →

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Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Silko: The Chinese Connection

Posted on February 6, 2013 by wcd2

February 6, 2012 In 1985 Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Leslie Silko traveled together to China, going up the Li River in a boat. Kingston and Silko have now come out with new books — Kingston, I Love a … Continue reading →

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Louise Erdrich, Kurt Vonnegut: Germany’s Wars

Posted on November 21, 2012 by wcd2

November 21, 2012 There is a longer title to Kurt Vonnegut’s famous novel: “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, a Fourth-Generation German-American Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod [and Smoking Too … Continue reading →

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