Eduardo Galeano: Through The Looking Glass – Through The Looking Glass (Paperback)

One of Latin America's most powerful voices in the fight against oppression, Eduardo Galeano has been compared to the philosopher Noam Chomsky. But where Chomsky's ideology finds expression in the empirical study of language, Galeano's has diversified into fiction, creating a seductively subversive embrace as dangerous and fertile as the institutions and geo-political realities he attacks. In a marriage of beauty with justice, the commitment to the principle of human freedom underpinning the work of Eduardo Galeano involves not only critique but a step into the aesthetic. Eduardo Hughes Galeano was born in Montevideo in 1940. Dropping out of school after only two years at secondary level, he felt, he claimed, like the playwright George Bernard Shaw: 'when I was seven years old I was obliged to stop my education by going to school.' Once free of formal restrictions, Galeano's learning took off. In September 1954, this 'exceptionally precocious' 14-year-old had his first article accepted by a Uruguayan socialist weekly. By the age of 20 he had become the managing editor of Marcha, a magazine renowned for its political influence. 1973 saw Marcha shut down by the military during a right-wing coup; Galeano was imprisoned. Exile, penury and persecution followed, his name finding its way onto a list of those condemned by the Argentinian death squads. Yet, believing the old proverb that it is better to advance and die than stand still and die, Galeano refused to be silenced. His emergence as a novelist, journalist, revisionist historian and human rights activist of enormous influence speaks not only of his singular talent but an indefatigable dedication. Despite his achievements, however, the writings of Eduardo Galeano have been largely ignored by scholarly disciplines as unworthy of their critical attention. This new assessment of his work, while suffering in places from a near-fatal attack of academic-speak, rectifies that omission. (Kirkus UK)

Here is the first full-length, critical study of Eduardo Galeano, born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1940, author of the monumental trilogy "Memory of Fire," and of the ground-breaking "Open Veins of Latin America"
Part political biography, part cultural theory, this book examines events that have shaped Galeano's life--from his close personal friendship with Allende, through the dictatorships in Uruguay and Argentina that forced him into exile, to the ongoing relationship between Galeano and Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Chiapas rebellion. The political effect of his work has been compared to that of Noam Chomsky.
Daniel Fischlin teaches literature at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Martha Nandorfy is a distinguished Hispanist scholar teaches at Concordia University, Montreal.

General

Imprint:	Black Rose Books
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	November 2001
Authors:	Daniel Fishchlin • Daniel Fischlin • Martha Nandorfy
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	434
ISBN-13:	978-1-55164-178-2
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-55164-178-X
Barcode:	9781551641782

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