Tag Archives: Sherman Alexie
Animals in Chicago
November 6, 2013 It seems right that the theme this year for the Chicago Humanities Festival should be “Animals: What Makes us Human.” This city, after all, used to be called (and maybe is still called) hog butcher for … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Animals, Atlantic, Diaspora, Environmentalism, Ethnicity, indigenous communities, Race, Spanish, World history
Tagged Atul Gawande, Bill T. Jones, Chicago Humanities Festival, Daily Show, Jonathan Safran Foer, Junot Diaz, Martina Navratilova, Peter Mancall, Rolena Adorno, Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie, Walt Whitman: Hoop Dreams
November 14, 2012 When Stephen Colbert pointed out with incredulity that he had come out with yet another book, Sherman Alexie said, “That’s what happens when you’re literate.” Yes, from reading to writing: it’s as easy as that, as inevitable. … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography, collaboration, contemporary poetry, Ethnicity, Genre, Media, mixed races, Modernist poetry, Native-American literature, Nineteenth-century literature, peripheral networks, print medium, Remediation, Remix, Sports, Television, Twentieth century literature, YouTube videos
Tagged "Defending Walt Whitman", basketball, boxing, First Indian on the Moon, Native Americans, Sherman Alexie, Song of Myself, Stephen Colbert, Walt Whitman. Muhammed Ali
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