Here is my analysis of Francesca Lia Block’s novel Weetzie Bat. This is an excerpt of an assignment I completed for my Books & Materials for Young Adults class. Caveat Lector: SPOILER ALERT! Weetzie Bat Analysis Francesca Lia Block styled her novel Weetzie Bat in the form of an urban fairy tale, but the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gender’
Analyzing YA Lit: Weetzie Bat
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, gender, literary analysis, reader's advisory, YA Lit on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Information Underground
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged communication, domestic violence, gender, hobos, information on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Okay, I’ve neglected this thing for too long. In class two weeks ago, we talked about Tulsa’s information infrastructures: the arrival of railroads, churches, radio, television, the Internet, etc. I’m always drawn to things outside the mainstream, and I started thinking about alternative information infrastructures, information subcultures, the information underground. Those information infrastructures that aren’t [...]
As long as we’re thinking outside the box…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book reviews, gender on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This seems like a good place to log some thoughts I jotted recently about the book Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Spoiler Warning! I suspect Middlesex will be a classic studied by college students one day. Tracing the familial and genetic history of a Greek family whose intersections resulted in the narrator’s birth as a hermaphrodite, [...]
