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Subversion / Reversion: The deconstruction and reconstruction of the Western cultural narrative through a Native American idiom in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water

By Dave | Published: February 27, 2010
In Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water, one of the many methods used to create a Native American narrative, rather than a Westernised one, is the radical re-versioning of Western-Christian mythology. In this essay I explore the power of destroying and recreating traditions, and the effect it has upon a westerner's euro-centric reading of the novel.
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Abortion

By Dave | Published: May 29, 2007
How do you define life? For me, life is more than simply exist­ing. Can we call an exist­ence without love a life? A life without exper­i­ences, hap­pi­ness and sad­ness, friend­ships and rela­tion­ships, isn’t a life. Life is not exist­ing, it is what you do dur­ing your lifetime. For this reason, I sup­port abor­tion. I don’t [...]
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Semana Santa

By Dave | Published: April 3, 2007
It’s Sem­ana Santa (Holy Week) here in Mex­ico, which seems basic­ally to mean that noth­ing gets done for about a fort­night. All the schools and so on are off, and here in Guzmán a lot of shops are shut too. I spent the last week­end in Guadala­jara again, because Tucker is leav­ing this week. It’s [...]
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