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General Buffy: How BtVS Adopts the Language of War in Season 7
Season 4 sets up a clear opposition to the military industrial complex as the Scoobies take on the Adam and the Initiative. But Buffy's inspirational speeches during season 7 echo the language of the times as the US embarked on the war in Iraq. We'll compare episodes from both seasons, discuss the problems that arise in using military language and the metaphor of war in a feminist show, and consider how Buffy both uses and subverts the role of "general".

Eps to Watch:

Goodbye Iowa s4ep14
Primeval s4ep21
Bring on the Night s7ep10
Get It Done s7ep15
Dirty Girls s7ep18

Essays to Read:

Buffy Goes to War: Military Themes and Images in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, by
Dennis Showalter


Who's Afraid of Jessica Lynch? or One Girl in All the World? Gendered Heroism and the Iraq War, by Sara Buttsworth

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Margaret Hawkins

A Year of Cats and Dogs

 In this dark, yet hopeful, unique and wholly original debut novel, Chicago writer Hawkins combines humor with desperation, the “real world” with the I-Ching, the conventions of fiction with food writing, lists, good and bad poetry, and the protagonist’s surprising discovery that she can communicate with animals, to tell a story of lost love, new love, and midlife re-invention unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. Hawkins writes for ARTnews, and her work has appeared on WBEZ and in the Chicago Sun-Times. She teaches writing at the Art Institute of Chicago. 

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