Blood's Will

Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere

AvMorna McDermott McNulty,William F. Pinar

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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In Blood’s Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere, main character Campbell Cote Phillips—a successful university professor, mother, and wife—faces the question "what would she give up to have everything else?" Her comfortable life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that not everything is always as it appears to be. The story unfolds between the 1970s and contemporary Baltimore, weaving together the experiences of Finn (an unusual vampire with a strange history) and Campbell—along with a cast of characters across different generations—whose stories are portrayed in base-relief against the promise, or peril, of immortality. Blood’s Will is about love and desire, but it is also about family, friends, and the choices we all make. To be human is to sacrifice. To be vampire is to have endless opportunities.As Noel Gough writes, "Understanding curriculum work as a storytelling practice has been a key theme in the reconceptualisation of curriculum studies during the last three decades, encapsulated by Madeleine Grumet’s formulation of curriculum as ‘the collective story we tell our children about our past, our present, and our future.’" Situated as a story embedded in the four stages of currere, the journey of the book’s main characters exemplifies the journey of recursion: the regressive, the progressive, the analytical, and the synthetic. Blood’s Will is an example of speculative fiction that "can contribute to an aspect of effective deliberation that Schwab called ‘the anticipatory generation of alternatives’" (Gough). This book is a useful reading for courses examining roles of narrative, fiction, and currere as fields of inquiry.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-27
Mått:150 x 225 x 22 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Complicated Conversation
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN:9781433157660

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Morna McDermott McNulty is a professor in the College of Education at Towson University, where she teaches teachers how to teach. She also teaches a class about vampires. Her books include The Left Handed Curriculum and An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her partner and two children.

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“As a professor of literacy, I understand the value of narrative and inquiry in shaping our lives and the world around us. Morna McDermott McNulty offers a groundbreaking work offeminist ficto-currere that asks its readers the deeper questions about how the stories we tell create identity and the power of the imagination to reshape our worlds. Blood’s Will weaves together threads of memory, fiction, and existence to create a tapestry of transformative inquiry.”—Nancy Rankie Shelton, Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Acknowledgements – Introduction – Chapter One – Chapter Two – Chapter Three – Chapter Four – Chapter Five – Chapter Six – Chapter Seven – Chapter Eight – Chapter Nine – Chapter Ten – Chapter Eleven – Chapter Twelve – Chapter Thirteen – Chapter Fourteen – Chapter Fifteen – Chapter Sixteen – Chapter Seventeen – Chapter Eighteen – Chapter Nineteen – Chapter Twenty – Chapter Twenty-One – Chapter Twenty-Two – Chapter Twenty-Three – Chapter Twenty-Four – Chapter Twenty-Five – Chapter Twenty-Six – Chapter Twenty-Seven – Chapter Twenty-Eight – Chapter Twenty-Nine – Chapter Thirty – Chapter Thirty-One – Chapter Thirty-Two – Chapter Thirty-Three – Chapter Thirty-Four – Chapter Thirty-Five – Chapter Thirty-Six – Chapter Thirty-Seven – Chapter Thirty-Eight – Chapter Thirty-Nine – Chapter Forty – Chapter Forty-One – Chapter Forty-Two – Chapter Forty-Three – Afterword: An Ending About Endings and Some – Words About Currere, Inquiry, and Fiction – Subject Index – Name Index.