The rudder in her work, and in her thinking, is this aversion to, and constant vigilance against, easy complacencies and groupthink.
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But there are real questions to ask about what we're supposed to do with all of this and what are the delusions that we have or the complacencies that we have.
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They're not delusions, they're complacencies, and these things have been in our lives for a long time and this particular president is forcing us to question things that we probably should have questioned before.
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Cohen's previous novel, the massive and massively ambitious " Book of Numbers " (2015), marched, in seven-league boots, over vast terrain: comparative theology, postmodern philosophy, questions of contemporary gender, the monstrous complacencies of the Internet age.
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So unquestioningly do the women, in their earlier years, enjoy "the golden good fortune of being chosen" and so subtly do all the characters undervalue Christine's viable career as a visual artist even as they fetishize Alex's neglected writing that one worries the narrative and the author are doing the same — until it becomes clear that these are the very complacencies Hadley is here to dismantle.
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He says, "Poverty, illiteracy, exploitation of man by man, social and political racism suffered by the black or the yellow, forced labor, inequalities, lies, resignation, swindles, prejudices, complacencies, cowardice, failure, crimes committed in the name of liberty, of equality, of fraternity, that is the theme of this indigenous poetry in French." Damas’ introduction was indeed a calling and affirmation for a distinct cultural identification.
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He uses his experience of growing up in war-torn Zimbabwe and apartheid and post- apartheid South Africa to speak back to the complacencies of contemporary America and Europe. Mary Corrigall in the Sunday Independent stated, “Higginson has crafted a complex and sophisticated piece of work that will become a new benchmark for South African theatre.” Higginson has been celebrated by novelists Nadine Gordimer and Andre Brink. Shortly before her death, Gordimer stated “The Dream House is an open and frank exploration of human life that resonates beyond race.
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The journal also responded to post Cold War U.S. policy in Latin America, including the disjuncture between rhetoric and reality under president Obama. The LAP editorial collective issued a critical statement on Obama’s Latin American policy “Dangerous Complacencies: Obama, Latin America, and the Misconceptions of Power” in a special issue on Obama and Latin America in July 2011. Although LAP had published pioneering issues and articles on women and culture in the 1970s, these themes became more prominent in recent years. The journal’s content on women expanded to a broader consideration of gender and sexuality and there was increased attention to the arts and media in issues on documentary film, culture and memory, narco-culture, and on the arts, performance and cultural resistance. The journal’s increased attention to art included its own format, which introduced covers with color photographs in 2007.
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