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I'm compiling a list of novels that contain depictions of undergraduate-level teaching (e.g. Coetzee's Disgrace, Ndichie's Americanah, Coe's Middle England etc etc). Can be central to plot or utterly minor. Any period, any region. Films/TV good too. Any takers?
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// CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE FROM THE CLASSROOM //
ed. Rebecca Roach
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// teaching, learning, universities, defining the contemporary, defining the literary, AI, crisis, race, engagement, attention, mediality, play, and more //
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Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.
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Today I'm leaving my temporary post as lecturer in English literature at De Montfort University @DMUEnglish after two years. I have learnt a huge amount from working alongside such remarkable and committed colleagues. (1/)
During a very difficult period, I've seen them work incredibly hard to make HE accessible to a cohort of students from generally less privileged and more diverse backgrounds than average. To say they do not deserve the current threat to their jobs is an understatement. (2/)
Some links for context and to show your support:
DMU petition - change.org/p/save-58-jobs-an…
DMU English statement - dmuenglish.blogspot.com/2022…
Running list of institutions facing cuts (thank you @drmarvel_) - nitter.gq/drmarvel_/status/15399… (3/3)
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🧵 For a full year, the Verso London union has been meeting with management about a recognition agreement, so that we can begin negotiations over our wages and working conditions.
And let us be contained
By entities of Self …
Not still with lethargy and sloth,
But quiet with the pushing of our growth
- Gwendolyn Bennett, 'To Usward' (1924)
Brushes and paints are all I have
To speak the music in my soul—
While silently there laughs at me
A copper jar beside a pale green bowl.
Bennett, 'Quatrains' (1927)
'No One Is Talking About This' by Patricia Lockwood (2021). I wrestled with this book, to be honest. On the one hand, its premise is similar to a fair bit of US literary fiction since at least the early 00s (thinking Foster Wallace, but plenty of others too), namely: (1/5)
But I was also moved & surprised. Hard not to be, given the tenderness of some of the writing towards the end. And most of all, I was struck by the novel's timely and powerful critique of ableism and all of the cultural/political assumptions that go along with it. Oh, and (4/5)
Just finished Paradais by Fernanda Melchor. I was struck by the way the prose circles relentlessly around the lives of the characters in a way that manages to catch their sense of entrapment, stagnation, repetition (1/6)
This novel dares to say: you're on your own with this shit, as in life. That is all. And I loved it, obviously! 😄 (6/6)
Read yesterday: 'Assembly' by Natasha Brown. I would describe this - approvingly - as an impatient text. (1/6)
As with the protagonist's reaction to the cancer growing in her body, its almost like the novel doesn't deem it worth the effort to stay the course, to fight the very fight that gives it its purpose in the first place. (5/6)