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Generation Exile
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Generation Exile

“If you ever sing those songs again, they will kill your daddy,” the boy’s mother warned him after he continued to sing one of the hymns of the Chilean revolution in public. Rodrigo Dorfman, the son of prominent dissidents, was six years old when his family fled Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship a month after the CIA-backed coup in 1973. In his fascinating memoir, Dorfman writes about his experiences as an exile and a migrant. He was dragged away from his homeland, “seduced by the thrill of flying on airplanes and visiting far-away places,” but reassured the family would return soon. They fled to Argentina, and then to Havana, Paris, Amsterdam and finally Bethesda, Marylan...

Feeding on Dreams
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Feeding on Dreams

Dorfman portrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, the personal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations from Buenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet's death squads, to safe houses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, his childhood home. The toll on Dorfman's wife and two sons, the 'earthquake of language' that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning of his allegiance to past and party - all these crucibles of a life in exile are revealed with wry and startling honesty. Feeding on Dreams is a passionate reminder that 'we are all exiles', that we are all 'threatened with annihilation if we do not find and celebrate the refuge of common humanity', as Dorfman did during his 'decades of loss and resurrection'.

Ariel Dorfman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently challenging assumptions and refusing preconceived categories, Dorfman has published in every major literary genre (novel, short story, poetry, drama); adopted literary forms including the picaresque, epic, noir, and theater of the absurd; and produced a vast amount of cultural criticism. His works are read as part of the Latin American literary canon, as examples of human rights literatur...

Generation Occupy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Generation Occupy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-09-19
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  • Publisher: Catapult

The fight for a $15 minimum wage. Nationwide teacher strikes. Bernie Sanders’s political revolution and the rise of AOC. Black Lives Matter. #MeToo. Read how the Occupy movement helped reshape American politics, culture and the groundbreaking movements to follow. "Fluidly written . . . Levitin’s enthusiasm is infectious . . . It is no exaggeration to say that Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots changed a good deal more of the landscape than Zuccotti Park’s three-quarters of an acre in New York’s financial district." —Tod Gitlin, The New York Times Book Review On the ten-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, Generation Occupy sets the historical record straight about the movemen...

27 Views of Durham
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

27 Views of Durham

Eno Publishers builds on its successful 27 Views series by showcasing the literary community of Durham, North Carolina, in 27 Views of Durham: The Bull City in Prose & Poetry. The book features 27 writers, who in poetry, essays, short stories, and book excerpts focus on the town of Durham, famous for Duke University, tobacco, and Southern cuisine. The collection offers readers a broad and varied picture of life past and present in Durham, as well as a sense of the town's literary breadth. Contributing authors include Steve Schewel, Jean Anderson, Carl Kenney, Katy Munger, Ariel Dorfman, Pierce Freelon, John Valentine, Shirlette Ammons, Jim Wise, and others.

The North Carolina Filmography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1662

The North Carolina Filmography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-21
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  • Publisher: McFarland

In recent years North Carolina has been recognized as a popular filming location for feature films and television series such as Last of the Mohicans and Dawson’s Creek. Few people, probably, realize that the first feature film in the state was shot in 1912. This comprehensive reference book provides a complete listing of every film, documentary, short, television program, newsreel, and promotional video in which at least some part was filmed in North Carolina, through the year 2000. The entries contain the following information: alternate titles, the type of film (feature film, television episode, etc), studio, cities, counties, scenes (Biltmore House, for example), comments (short synopses of the movies), director, producer, co-producer, executive producer, cinematographer, writer, music and casting credits, additional crew, and cast.

Trans-Americanity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Trans-Americanity

In this book the author critiques the work of various writers within the framework of a globalized study of the Americas.

Rewriting American Identity in the Fiction and Memoirs of Isabel Allende
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Rewriting American Identity in the Fiction and Memoirs of Isabel Allende

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through revised notions of place, temporality, and space.

International Who's Who in Poetry 2005
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1787

International Who's Who in Poetry 2005

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.

America According to Colbert
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

America According to Colbert

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-30
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  • Publisher: Springer

America According to Colbert: Satire as Public Pedagogy post 9/11 argues that, in contrast to the anti-intellectualism, the sensationalism, and the punditry that tend to govern most mass media today, Stephen Colbert's program offers his audience the opportunity to understand the context through which most news is reported and to be critical of it.