Thursday, January 31, 2019

Wallace and Gromit and the Power of Urban Farming

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Films about inner-city gardens suggest interactions between human and nonhuman nature may restore both, providing psychological be...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

The Scent of Green Papaya and Gardens, conclusion

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When Mui dresses in the clothes her former mistress gave her, even painting her lips with lipstick, Khuyen notices her, but the camer...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019

The Scent of Green Papayas and Gardens, continued

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The contrast between Mui and the family continues ten years later, when Mui, now twenty, is forced to leave the family and serve her ...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Post-Colonial Gardens in The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)

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In  The Scent of Green Papaya , a courtyard garden serves as young servant Mui’s (Man San Lu and Tran Nu Yên-Khê) respite from a comi...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Milk of Sorrow and Gardens, Part III

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The wall and gates, however, limit this garden to only the rich white colonizers and lock out Fausta’s indigenous family members and ...

Milk of Sorrow and Gardens, Part III

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The wall and gates, however, limit this garden to only the rich white colonizers and lock out Fausta’s indigenous family members and ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Milk of Sorrow and the Garden Part II

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A doctor’s visit to treat the bloody nose broaches a second garden, a vining potato Fausta has inserted to shield her from men and ...