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Book SynopsisIn Blood's Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere, main character Campbell Cote Phillipsa successful university professor, mother, and wifefaces the question what would she give up to have everything else? Her comfortable life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that not everything is always as it appears to be. The story unfolds between the 1970s and contemporary Baltimore, weaving together the experiences of Finn (an unusual vampire with a strange history) and Campbellalong with a cast of characters across different generationswhose stories are portrayed in base-relief against the promise, or peril, of immortality. Blood's Will is about love and desire, but it is also about family, friends, and the choices we all make. To be human is to sacrifice. To be vampire is to have endless opportunities.
As Noel Gough writes, Understanding curriculum work as a storytelling practice has been a key theme in the reconceptualisation of curriculu
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“Blood’s Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere is a significant contribution—and really, a remarkable piece of work—by one of the nation’s most important scholar/authors in the curriculum studies, teacher education, educational policy, and research fields. This work isn’t merely a novel that you can’t put down, it is a window to so many salient themes that we think about in our work on a daily basis and have few innovative resources to address them in our work as individuals and with students. I believe this book will be read widely and should be taught in our courses.” —Tom Poetter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University
“Blood’s Will is a speculative fiction in the vampire subgenre that also functions as a philosophical meditation on curriculum inquiry (with particular reference to the autobiographical method now known as currere) and dramatizes ontological, epistemological, and axiological questions about human knowledges and understandings of living and dying. It is clearly informed by feminist, counter-heteronormative, and what I would call post-humanist positions. This book is a significant contribution to the literature of curriculum theorizing.” —Noel Gough, Professor Emeritus at La Trobe University
“Not since Madeleine Grumet’s Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching have I fallen under the spell of a powerful and creative feminist text. Morna McDermott McNulty’s Blood’s Will makes this passage between the public and private worlds for our contemporary times. No doubt, you too will devour this compelling postmodern feminist novel conveying larger life themes through the vampire archetype!” —Carol Mullen, Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Tech
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements – Introduction – Chapter One – Chapter Two – Chapter Three – Chapter Four – Chapter Five – Chapter Six – Chapter Seven – Chapter Eight – Chapter Nine – Chapter Ten – Chapter Eleven – Chapter Twelve – Chapter Thirteen – Chapter Fourteen – Chapter Fifteen – Chapter Sixteen – Chapter Seventeen – Chapter Eighteen – Chapter Nineteen – Chapter Twenty – Chapter Twenty-One – Chapter Twenty-Two – Chapter Twenty-Three – Chapter Twenty-Four – Chapter Twenty-Five – Chapter Twenty-Six – Chapter Twenty-Seven – Chapter Twenty-Eight – Chapter Twenty-Nine – Chapter Thirty – Chapter Thirty-One – Chapter Thirty-Two – Chapter Thirty-Three – Chapter Thirty-Four – Chapter Thirty-Five – Chapter Thirty-Six – Chapter Thirty-Seven – Chapter Thirty-Eight – Chapter Thirty-Nine – Chapter Forty – Chapter Forty-One – Chapter Forty-Two – Chapter Forty-Three – Afterword: An Ending About Endings and Some – Words About Currere, Inquiry, and Fiction – Subject Index – Name Index.
