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“Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.”

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Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is a Serbian-American writer known for his unique literary style and profound humanistic concerns. His works focus on themes of immigration, identity, and individual experience, and have won him a wide readership. more

“One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.”

“Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.”

Ifs Kind Real Character Body Fiction Violence Example Fit Scripts Instance Narrative Genre Encounters Minorities Norm Messy Lisbeth Salander

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.”

People World Real Government Growing Conformity Real World Largesse

Author:Michele Bachmann

“I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.”

Thinking Inspirational Trying Success Fun Work Business Products Self Improvement Customers Having Fun Business Success Always Trying

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the reader to feel their own body while they are reading, is this: we live by and through the body, and the body, is a walking contradiction.”

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Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.”

Want Writing Character Body Desire Literature Violence Walking Contradiction Intensity Astonishing Physicality

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in short bursts and pulses and then gets diluted. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson shot up and then got sucked back down underground under more entertaining and less radical versions of body and self - poetry and prose that posited bodies in more perfect union with good citizenship.”

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Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature.”

Children Important Character Body Literature Cases Etc Minorities Prize Prisoner Nuts Disenfranchised

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social, psychological, sexual journey for women and minorities who must pass through patriarchy and the symbolic order in order to claim a self.”

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Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.”

Years Difficult Eight Regimes

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