Our Stories, Our Voices by Amy Reed (ed)

Author:Amy Reed (ed) [Reed, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781534408999
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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1. I realize this sounds incredibly fancy. That’s because it was. It had a fabric jacket!

2. Not being immediately excellent at this, I quit.

3. Horns are, in the Western literary tradition, usually coded as white. They’re used to signal and herald the arrival of kings and heroes. Drums, on the other hand, were used by Muslims during war. The North African Almohads famously used drums and poetry to intimidate their enemies on the battlefield, something Tolkien was likely familiar with, if not in that specific capacity, then generally.

4. This is why your tenth-grade English teacher is asking you why the curtains are pink. Often pink curtains are just pink curtains—but the author put them there for a reason. Because the room needed pink curtains or because the pink curtains are Symbols. With a capital S.

5. This is changing, however slowly, thanks to groups of activists in Morocco and across North Africa who are fighting and lobbying for the right to indigenous cultural expression (among many other things).

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