English @ SUNY Geneseo | Elise Silverstein | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/elise/activity/ Activity feed for Elise Silverstein. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 d07eb6d26d52860a39fec57fe4c18687 Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=616 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:51:14 -0500 One thing that has stood out to me from the start of the Parable series is Lauren’s unquestioned power and authority. I think that one reason Lauren’s relationship with Bankole never made me uncomfortable is that […]

]]> d619f2429828b4c4fcdf29b09fa54e9d Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=545 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:37:52 -0500 Last week I attended the talk given on the incarceration and criminalization of LGBT communities and there were several parallels I was able to draw between the topics discussed and Lilith’s Brood, which I was in […]

]]> 54a5f85af4aa470c11ea8fa309a5294a Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=411 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 01:42:23 -0500 I found Sherryl Vint’s article “Becoming Other: Animals, Kinship, And Butler’s ‘Clay’s Ark'” to be intriguing because I really wasn’t familiar with any of the ideas regarding the species boundary, thus I didn’t […]

]]> 62374b850f2614ce9be2c446d96321fd Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=334 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:55:17 -0500 In discussing the end of Mind of My Mind last week, my group was led into a conversation in which we contemplated the reasons we believe what we do and how collective beliefs seem to influence society. […]

]]> 8aee62940fc1a6212de48301c25fab0a Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=228 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 18:00:22 -0500 In class on Wednesday we judged characters in Octavia Butler’s novel, Wild Seed for being immoral, inhumane, coercive, hypocritical, stubborn, self-righteous, and generally exhibiting extremely disturbing […]

]]> 55d7513a3be4b5fa5dd45fae56309881 Elise Silverstein wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=172 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:53:01 -0500 One immediate alarm for me in reading Fledgling, was Shori’s loss of memory and Octavia Butler’s constant reiteration of this occurrence, throughout the novel (including on the first and last pages). Some members […]

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