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Malik, the main character, is a young Yemeni who has been sent to live with his aunt in France after his mother's death. Malik becomes aware that his aunt has lied when she told her Yemeni family that living in France was wonderful. She was too ashamed to tell the truth. She could not admit that she was struggling, facing a multitude of difficulties, racism, poverty, exploitation, solitude, nostalgia and her broken dreams. Malik has to find his place in this other culture, so different from his own. Hence the title 'Where do I belong?' He is lost, grieving his country, its ancestral traditions and, above all, his mother. Like a tightrope walker, he finds his own way as different events take place. He grows up.
"A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you speechless." Written in Paris after the heady days of student revolt in May 1968 and before the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, History of Shit is emblematic of a wild and adventurous strain of 1970s' theoretical writing that attempted to marry theory, politics, sexuality, pleasure, experimentation, and humor. Radically redefining dialectical thought and post-Marxist politics, it takes an important—and irreverent—position alongside the works of such postmodern thinkers as Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Lyotard. Laporte's eccentric style and ironic sensibility combine in an inquiry that is provocative, humorous, and intel...
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Reject diet culture, achieve a healthy relationship with food, and nourish your body and soul with this book from registered dietitian, nutritionist, and creator behind the Instagram @TheNutritionTea, Shana Spence. In Live Nourished, Shana Spence starts by exposing diet culture for what it is: a patriarchal, capitalist mindset that is engrained in countless aspects of our society, and that keeps us from living healthily and joyfully. It’s a systemic belief that equates fitness, health, and thinness with worth and assigns food a moral value. And it’s a belief that pervades our society. Spence’s arguments will open your eyes to the insidiousness of this mindset, which coopts the way that...
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