Poet Lory Hess contends that the healing story of the blind man is about opening ourselves to spiritual light.
Author Archives: Robin Bates
Cutting Edge Native Healing Ceremonies
Silko explores the power of Native American healing practices in “Ceremony,” some of which modern medicine is beginning to adopt.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Ceremony, Laguna Pueblo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Therapy Comments closed
Trump, His Billionaires, and Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand’s novels help explain why certain billionaires are gravitating to Donald Trump. Trump’s own enthusiasm about “The Fountainhead” is also revealing.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Donald Trump, Election 2024, Fountainhead, Libertarianism, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Hartmann, Tom Nichols, Trumpism Comments closed
Combat Lit Awakens Future Warriors
In “Purple Hibiscus,” Adichie continues the liberation struggle of Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” but for the next stage of Nigeria’s history.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged African literature, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe, Edward Said, Enid Blyton, Frantz Fanon, Literature of combat, Little Black Doll, Nigeria, Purple Hibiscus, Things Fall Apart Comments closed
Environmental Novelist Harriet Martineau
Victorian novelist Harriet Martineau, though largely forgotten, foresaw ecology, environmentalism, and realist fiction.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Charles Darwin, Environmental fiction, Environmentalism, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Robert Malthus Comments closed
Richard II and Our Own Succession Issues
Shakespeare’s “Richard II” maybe be about an absolute monarch but what it says about succession issues are relevant today.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Trump, Election 2024, Peaceful transfer of power, Richard II, William Shakespeare Comments closed
God’s Answer to Job–and to Me
I explore the meaning of God’s answer to Job by applying it to when I lost my oldest son.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Book of Job, death and dyng, Flies, grieving, Jean Paul Sartre, Job, Suffering Comments closed
Disruptive Desire in Shakespeare
In which I examine disruptive desire in 12th Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Comedy, gender bending, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, sexuality, tragedy, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Heine’s Weavers vs. Trump’s Weave
Trumps explains his growing incoherence as a rhetorical “weave.” German poet Heine provides a response in “The Weavers.”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Weavers", dementia, Friedrich Engels, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Mladen Dolar, revolt, Silesian weavers of 1844 Comments closed
