6/30/2023 0 Comments Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa![]() ![]() ![]() Just as Netsai’s amputated leg surfaces compulsively throughout The Book of Not as a signifier of the trauma of chimurenga, Cracking India’s Partition narrative is haunted by recurring images of corporeal dismemberment - tearing, cracking, bleeding, pain - that emerge from the protagonist Lenny’s childhood experiences of disability (she is lame as a result of polio). Echoing a problematic conflation of individual and national bodies that was apparent in nationalist discourses in this period, the text performs a discomfiting oscillation between materialist constructions of disability as a social presence and the deployment of disability as a prosthesis standing in for colonial disablement and the mutilated - partitioned - body politic. Of all the texts analysed in this book, Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India (1991), 1 a child-narrated account of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, offers the most conflicted negotiation between material and metaphorical modes of representation. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Unearthed by amie kaufman![]() ![]() They came to Gaia certain that they had far more to fear from their fellow humans than the ancient beings whose mysteries they're trying to unravel. but both are keeping secrets that make trust nearly impossible.Īs they race to decode the ancient messages, Jules and Mia must navigate the traps and trials within the Undying temples and stay one step ahead of the scavvers on their heels. Beset by rival scavenger gangs, Jules and Mia form a fragile alliance. ![]() Despite their opposing reasons for smuggling themselves onto the alien planet's surface, they're both desperate to uncover the riches hidden in the Undying temples. as long as scavengers like Amelia Radcliffe don't loot everything first. ![]() The Undying's advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and their message leads to the planet Gaia, a treasure trove waiting to be explored.įor Jules Addison and his fellow scholars, the discovery of an ancient alien culture offers unprecedented opportunity for study. When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution humanity has been waiting for. From the New York Times best-selling author duo Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner comes a "literally breathtaking" new sci-fi series about a death-defying mission on an alien planet. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The duchess deal book 2![]() Mr McCarthy added: “I believe this is an agreement in principle that’s worthy of the American people.”Ī draft text of the agreement in legislative form was due to be published on Sunday, with Mr McCarthy saying he expected to bring it to a vote on the House floor as soon as Wednesday. Mr Biden insisted that the agreement reached with Mr McCarthy represented “a compromise, which means not everyone gets what they want”. ![]() She urged lawmakers to act quickly following Saturday’s deal. ![]() Janet Yellen, the US Treasury Secretary, has warned that the US will default on June 5 unless action is taken. ![]() If lawmakers do not raise the debt ceiling – which is currently set at $31 trillion (£25 trillion) – the US would be forced to default on its debt payments, potentially resulting in a worldwide recession. A failure to pass legislation in time would risk disaster for global markets, experts have warned. ![]() |