Books
|
Not currently available
Homeland Security Ate My Speech - Messages from the End of the World (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R406
Discovery Miles 4 060
You Save: R133
(25%)
|
|
Homeland Security Ate My Speech - Messages from the End of the World (Hardcover)
(sign in to rate)
List price R539
Loot Price R406
Discovery Miles 4 060
You Save R133 (25%)
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
"A worthy addition to the library of resistance." —Kirkus
"Dorfman’s critique is personal, intellectual, devastating, and
at times bitingly funny." —New York Journal of Books Combining
elements of memoir, political theory, and literary criticism, Ariel
Dorfman’s Homeland Security Ate My Speech is an emotionally raw
yet measured assessment of the United States after the election of
Donald Trump. Dorfman, writing with a bifurcated Latino-American
identity, highlights the troubling parallels between Trump and
repressive regimes of the past. Specifically, Dorfman relates the
election of Trump to the CIA-led coup that installed Pinochet as
dictator in Chile: an event that upended Dorfman’s life, as well
as the fate of the country. With corruption and repression looming,
he wonders, can the United States avoid the same kind of political
interference it practiced in the past? Reflecting Dorfman’s
virtuosity across genres, the essays of Homeland Security Ate My
Speech are concise, yet highly original and playful; one takes the
form of a letter from a sixteenth-century King of Spain to Donald
Trump, praising him for his intolerance, and urging a revival of
the Inquisition, while another begins with Dorfman’s memory of
seeing a monster movie as a child ("I can remember gripping my
mother’s hand tight") and segues into a thoughtful meditation on
Trump via Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Dorfman brings a
rich array of literary references to his discussion of America’s
current malaise; other authors he invokes include Faulkner,
Shakespeare, Cervantes, Melville, Lewis Carroll, and Dave Eggers.
General
Imprint: |
Or Books
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2017 |
Authors: |
Ariel Dorfman
|
Dimensions: |
190 x 127 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-944869-63-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-944869-63-8 |
Barcode: |
9781944869632 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.