*Leiningen versus the Ants* tells the story of a settler determined to fight an oncoming invasion of soldier ants when all the odds are stacked against him. The short story regularly features in anthologies alongside Jack London's survival stories. It conveys the notion that nothing can stop a colonial master if he is of strong enough character, not even the calamities of nature. In the classroom, the reading assignment often serves as preamble to discuss man versus nature, narrative structure and characterization. The colonial ideology that underpins it? Not so much.
It is not easy for the average person to imagine that an animal, not to > mention an insect, can think. But now both the European brain of Leiningen > and the primitive brains of the Indians began to stir with the unpleasant > foreboding that inside every single one of that deluge of insects dwelt a > thought. And that thought was: Ditch or no ditch, we'll get to your flesh! Critical situations first become crises, he explained to his men, when oxen > or women get excited. Apologists will demand examination of the text in the context of its time, its society. Undoubtedly, those were times of euro-centrism, misogyny and self-professed superiority. But those were also times of dissenting, progressive voices demanding change, equality, a better world. Those voices need to be anthologized and discussed in the classroom, too. The empires may have been undone, but their ideology lingers on, oftentimes implicit and rampant. On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:48 AM movie gique <dsblakewat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I came across "Leiningen vs. the Ants" in a collection of short stories I > have. Highly recommended! > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:44 AM Daniel Szmulewicz < > daniel.szmulew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I hope you'll enjoy reading my latest blog post on Meyvn, if only for the >> historical tidbits around Clojure tooling. >> >> "When we we say that Clojure is hosted on the JVM, we often forget the >> corollary, that Clojure tooling is built on Maven. We'd be forgiven for the >> oversight: the tooling is good at keeping Maven out of sight. But Maven is >> everywhere: in Clojars as the repository format, in Boot where Pomegranate >> is used as the interface for the Maven resolver, in tools.deps which >> harnesses the Maven resolver directly... Meyvn takes the ubiquity of Maven >> to its logical conclusion, delegating all tasks to Maven's execution >> engine." >> >> Oh, and did you ever wonder where Leiningen gets its name from? Read on >> <https://danielsz.github.io/blog/2020-09-01T1556.html>. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/21af7406-d013-4846-9f4b-6d1eab0b00aan%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/21af7406-d013-4846-9f4b-6d1eab0b00aan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/ESdRNo6nL1A/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/CAJAnwPkoNneMTYZYu-w_pD3b%3D7gqbx%2BDj5RaOAY%3D3BjCsqr5Gg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/CAJAnwPkoNneMTYZYu-w_pD3b%3D7gqbx%2BDj5RaOAY%3D3BjCsqr5Gg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/CAABPU6-j9Nfc9_7xsqo8CfXTgyB4%3DYbmf42w%3DCvfqYCHG-8EyA%40mail.gmail.com.
