#BookReview of Blazing Summer by Gordon L. Rottman #TuesdayBookBlog #DystopianYA
In yesterday’s post, I compared standard young adult dystopian tropes to the new standard of life in the time …
In yesterday’s post, I compared standard young adult dystopian tropes to the new standard of life in the time …
I was TOTALLY right! As CNN reports here, in a new study by a team of researchers at Germany’s Heidelberg …
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Of course, we all know about the Wild West. Men wore cowboy hats—white stetsons for good guys, black for bad ones. Everyone was armed with a six-shooter, and cowboys were old white dudes with names like “Tex” who’d grown up on the open range. Women came in two kickass models: good (frontier wives/ preachers’ daughters) and bad (dance-hall girls/Soiled Doves such as Big Nose Kate, Doc Holliday’s common law wife). Occasionally, the Soiled Doves—if they had a Heart-of-Gold—would become good saloon owners (like Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke) or even wives. On any given noon, there could be shoot-outs on Main Street. Or perhaps a gang of black-hats wearing long dusters would arrive in town, scope out the saloon, and then rob the bank, shooting their way out of town in a hail of bullets as they hightail it back to the Hole-in-the Wall/territory line/Mexico.
Andrew Joyce doesn’t so much take on the stereotypes, as he presents a revisionist history of epic events from a human scale. But in the light of recent elections, I also have to say that it feels like a cautionary tale. As Americans, we’re invited to examine our past, and to take an honest look at what happens when we stop viewing other people—their lives, their looks, their cultures—as having the same level of human value as our own.
Genre bingo (or How to Write a Bestselling Book/Hit Movie) : Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, …
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