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Postcolonial Speculative FictionMain MenuIntroduction to the ProjectCourse TextsOther Course MediaAuthor ResourcesThis page will provide links to authors' websites and other information, such as interviews.Blogs by Dawn HicksBlogs by Matthew HicksBlogs by Kiisha HilliardBlogs by Mary LaffidyBlogs by Chelsea LarymoreRhonda Knight6e1aac8b66b350de4366c4aa7ff320a7de3beb6a
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12019-05-04T21:03:03-07:00Mary Laffidybbaa6fac1a2d68d7d027a0bc645072eb108dbf5c105811plain2019-05-04T21:03:03-07:00Mary Laffidybbaa6fac1a2d68d7d027a0bc645072eb108dbf5cI've read two posts about this short story so far and both of them make me think of completely different things. Your focus on American journalism immediately brought to mind the travel shows on CNN with Anderson Cooper and (RIP) Anthony Bourdain. They seem to only be "showing the facts" and the real lives of people from other countries, but I really want to go to Netflix now and rewatch some of these specials from this perspective (thanks to COM theory/Nietzsche I now realize nothing can be done without bias). Do you think that we can ever portray other cultures accurately without some kind of appropriation or even without a biased, American lens?
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1media/Deeper-into-the-abyss-300x225.jpg2019-04-14T18:46:22-07:00Matthew Hicks6a557b24a786aa0747938d11b6ae37e5645b8818Icon: What happens when you stare into the abyss?15Imperialism and exceptionalism in westernersimage_header2019-05-08T02:36:34-07:00Rhonda Knight6e1aac8b66b350de4366c4aa7ff320a7de3beb6a