...Ricia Anne Chansky Drafted in the wake of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, this article explores the potential benefits of students writing unrevised, real-time auto/biographical narratives as an element of disaster pedagogy. The lesson of the ugly auto/biography builds on an impromptu post-9/11...

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... for fifty dollars a person, promising “an eyewitness account of the events sur- rounding the most devastating natural — and man-­made — disaster on Ameri- can soil!” (Gray Line 2012). While loosely resonant with Eggers’s approach in its emphasis on local perspective and confluence of human and natural...

... of loss to which I responded with magical thinking rituals intended to ward off disaster, this hit home in a way I wasn't quite able to articulate yet. It also communicated a strong sense of eeriness—even in his extended absences the Creature felt present throughout the better part of the narrative, able...

... Literature may also be evident in the closing chapter on teaching literature in times of crisis, disaster, tragedy, sor- row, and panic (131). Given the topic s resonance, I d hoped for more than a brief rumination placed almost as an afterthought. The destruction of the World Trade Center, as horrific...

... Literature may also be evident in the closing chapter on teaching literature in times of crisis, disaster, tragedy, sor- row, and panic (131). Given the topic s resonance, I d hoped for more than a brief rumination placed almost as an afterthought. The destruction of the World Trade Center, as horrific...

... in times of crisis, disaster, tragedy, sor- row, and panic (131). Given the topic s resonance, I d hoped for more than a brief rumination placed almost as an afterthought. The destruction of the World Trade Center, as horrific and tragic as it was, was hardly the first event that challenged our classroom...

... of humor; my students did not openly disrespect me even though I was, at most, four years older than they were; and I avoided what I would consider any major public disasters. At the same time, I was eager to find my identity as a teacher and eager to have a purpose beyond survival; I knew I loved teaching...

... with reference to these works: what is the role of disaster or inhumanity in human life and world history (the plague, the Lisbon earthquake, imperialism, ter- rorism, or ignorance and deprivation)? The course therefore has a narrative or chronological structure, as well as an argumentative or thematic...

..., the primary thinker, speaker, and actor in the production, may be the most disquieting of his personae. This aspect of Lang kvetches about what seems like a typical first day of class as though it were a cavalcade of disasters, sighs at the realization that he is “hanging with the dorks...

..., and, at times, composed and recomposed for the better. The pretty young woman inspired to become a speech therapist because of her own dozen years of facial surgeries and rehabilitation. The unmedicated student with a chronic condition risking disaster because his health insurance drug limit covers only...

... this plays a role, especially as suicide bombings and natural disasters are trans- mitted across the global media screen — this emergence of the ghost in theory is symptomatic also of the general experience of early-twenty-first-century life as well as a fundamental shift in the ways in which...

... “disorder of mind” by means of metaphors involving natural disasters: “My thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world” (16). The natural world is hostile to him, for “thoughts of death had long been common . . . blowing...

... Clearinghouse . Bernstein Susan David . 2003 . “ Promiscuous Reading: The Problem of Identification and Anne Frank’s Diary .” In Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust , ed. Bernard-Donals Michael Glejzer Richard , 141 – 61 . Madison : University of Wisconsin...

... in oneself. Elizabeth Wurtzel ( 1997 : 1) describes the difficulty well: “Depression is not a sudden disaster. It is more like a cancer: At first its tumorous mass is not even noticeable to the careful eye, and then one day—wham!—there is a huge, deadly, seven-pound lump. . . . Depression is a lot like...

... home: family, friends, social standing, political identity, per- sonal as well as communal history. The pilgrim cannot foresee this disaster in 1300, the fictional date of the poem. Instead, his future is foretold over the course of the Commedia, obliquely at first but then with terrible clarity...

... communication of experience by man to men . . . then the nation of which a considerable portion rejects this means of grace . . . must assuredly be heading to disaster. There is a simple point to this historical parable. The formal study of English in England has always been in some sense...