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A group of world renown big game hunters are asked to take part in a managment hunt on a series of islands known only by the United States government. When violent eco-terrorists invade and begin destroying all man-made structures and even all humans, the hunters must band together to survive them and the mysterious game they were sent to hunt. Packed with thrills, chills and spine tingling action sequences, ISLAND is sure to be the tour de force to be talked about for ages!
In Migrant Modernism, J. Dillon Brown examines the intersection between British literary modernism and the foundational West Indian novels that emerged in London after World War II. By emphasizing the location in which anglophone Caribbean writers such as George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon produced and published their work, Brown reveals a dynamic convergence between modernism and postcolonial literature that has often been ignored. Modernist techniques not only provided a way for these writers to mark their difference from the aggressively English, literalist aesthetic that dominated postwar literature in London but also served as a self-critical medium through which to treat themes of nationalism, cultural inheritance, and identity.
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This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of émigré novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as "the Windrush writers" in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush, whose 1948 voyage from Jamaica inaugurated large-scale Caribbean migration to London. In critical accounts this group is typically reduced to the canonical troika of V. S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Sam Selvon, effectively treating these three authors as the tradition's founding fathers. These "founders" have been properly celebrated for producing a complex, anticolonial, nationalist literature. However...
When four boys rent a stack of video tapes from the mysterious new video store that just opened up, their movie marathon night quickly evolves into a night of horror that gets worse and worse with each twisted film they watch. Bone Box by Brent Abell In their last summer before high school, four friends will be drawn into a nightmare they never saw coming. One of them has a problem, and his hobbies of collecting the bones of dead animals are about to come back to haunt them. The Dinner Party by Dillon Brown When Haley and her friends travel to Dingman's Lake for a weekend camping trip full of booze, boom-boxes and making out, the infamous campfire tale of Colonel Dingman's lost caravan is to...