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Comment by annabell on October 28, 2009 at 6:57pm

the progressive patriot...

Comment by annabell on October 26, 2009 at 6:56pm

hi immodium! perhaps you could write us about the novel.
thanx a lot. annabell

Comment by Immodium on October 21, 2009 at 7:48am

does anyone read hubert selby junior?

Comment by annabell on October 20, 2009 at 7:37am

ANYONE OUT THERE WHO STILL READS Saul Bellow?
The Victim

Comment by MedeaInToyland<X3 on October 6, 2009 at 11:30am

Is anyone there who likes Oriana Fallaci? I love her style, even if in the last years of her life her ideas about politics became desputable.. what do you think about her?

Comment by annabell on January 5, 2009 at 5:09pm

amazing Book: Hellions - pop culture's rebel women!
Body: I have just read through it and have written a couple of lines...


Hellions – Pop Culture’s Rebel Women
Author: Maria Raha
Publisher: Seal Press

“We are infinitely complicated women. Our images require as many layers as we ourselves contain” (Raha, 2008).

Chapeau! Maria Raha.. s profound journalistic work deals with the oversimple public perception of both eccentric female artists and activists within the framework of Anglo- American cultural history. To analyze pop history, from a rather feminist point of view, it begs the question of whether males and females are being talked and written about differently by the press. Hellions asks why such renegades, outsiders and outriders, as Janis Choplin and Billy Holliday tended to develop self- destructive patterns of behaviour. Additionally, it elucidates why they were rather remembered for their tragic deaths than for their dogged and brave deeds. Raha, an outspoken feminist, does not only criticize the public images(cherry bombs) of actresses like Monroe, Page and Hepburn, but also sheds light on how the public personas of writers like Woolf and Plath were generally perceived and misinterpreted. Moreover, the journalistic work touches upon political institutions such as former First Ladies (Clinton and Roosevelt) and shows how the press was implicitly trying to batter against their self-esteems. Yoko Ono and Sinead O’Connor were punished by a large amount of fans for voicing their controversial political opinions (in Ono.. s case in particular Lennon’s adherents) and Raha provides us with a more incisive background analysis on their stories. The second last chapter focuses on the chronological development of movie heroines and how Hollywood came to allow for more self- assertive role models. Last but not least, the book offers a deep insight into rebellious acts, contemporary pop culture, and means of mass communication.

All in all, this book is a hit for everyone who would like to gain more knowledge on pop culture’s rebel women. However, I have to warn you: Raha picked up a very elaborate linguistic style. To most average speakers of English it might be better to wait for the German version.
Be that as it may, jump in the water is great!

By Annabell Weimar

Comment by annabell on December 9, 2008 at 4:47pm

Dear all, we are doing some research on excentric literature and 2 books seem to be uncanonizable: Stevie Smith´s Novel on Yellow Paper
and Loley Willoe

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Comment by Meghan on July 25, 2008 at 11:24am

There is a book that I just read that of course I just returned to the library before getting the editors name, It is called RED, writings by teenage girls and what fires them up. It was a great read in the world of teenagers we see plastered before us partying and living it up , these girls had so many good things to say and were angry and passionate and pleasent to read. I also just finished reading a Joyce Carol Oates book Missing Mom...good stuff. The other author I've read lately is A. Manette Ansay. She is so good with words. I read her memoir Limbo, haunting. I am now reading her book of short stories, " Read This And Tell Me What it Says."

Comment by crustyriotgrrl on July 2, 2008 at 12:43am

annabell, I'm so glad you appreciate Joyce Carol Oates! Her book "FOXFIRE" is my absolute favorite book of all time. Its about a girl gang in 1950s New York who shut down local businesses, vandalize buildings for justice and form their own living collective to support one another.

Comment by annabell on June 17, 2008 at 9:34am

What I woudl as well recommend to all people who are interested in American coultercultures:

Walden by Thoreau
Exiles Return by Cowley.
On the Road by Kerouack
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
The Making of a Counterculture by Theodore Roszack.

We had to read these books in a seminar by a teacher who teaches socilology.

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