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____________________ 'An illuminating and timely story that
highlights the plight of refugees ... A book that haunts and shames
in equal measure' - Guardian 'This short but heart-wrenching book
... brings home the terrible human consequences of war. Caroline
Brothers' stark, unsentimental novel is one everyone should read' -
Daily Mail 'Intensely evocative ... The emotional as well as
geographical borderlands are sensitively delineated in this
visceral and moving debut' - Independent ____________________ The
inspiration for Flight, the stunning play coming to the Bridge
Theatre, from the creatives behind Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child ____________________ Two young boys cross a river in the
middle of the night. The river is also a border, and their lives
depend on this journey. With nothing but the clothes on their
backs, Aryan and his little brother Kabir travel by truck, boat,
train, bus and on foot across a Europe they desperately hope will
offer them a future they can no longer wait for in Afghanistan.
Kabul-Tehran-Istanbul-Athens-Rome-Paris-London - this is the route
they cling to, the mantra they repeat in their prayers, and the
only option they can see before them. Hinterland is the story of
two ordinary brothers whose courageous gamble brings home the
devastating human consequences of war.
Buenos Aires, 1976. Osvaldo Ferrero, a distinguished doctor, and
his wife Yolanda escape the city with their daughters, sensible
Julieta and wilful Graciela, who is nineteen and madly in love. On
their return, the Argentine military stages a coup. Friends
disappear overnight, and Osvaldo is forced to flee to Europe. When
her fiance is abducted, Graciela goes into hiding, then she
vanishes in turn. As Yolanda fights on the ground for some trace of
their beloved daughter, she soon realises she may be fighting for
an unknown grandchild as well...
Drawing on the work of Barthes, Eco, Foucault, Baudrillard, Burgin
and Tagg, and on the historians of mentalities, War and Photography
presents a theoretical approach to the understanding of press
photography in its historical and contemporary context. Brothers
applies her argument with special reference to French and British
newspaper images of the Spanish Civil War, a selection of which is
presented in the book. Rejecting analyses based upon the content of
the images alone, she argues that photographic meaning is largely
predetermined by its institutional and cultural context. Acting as
witnesses despite themselves, photographs convey a wealth of
information not about any objective reality, but about the
collective attitudes and beliefs particular to the culture in which
they operate.
Drawing on the work of Barthes, Eco, Foucault, Baudrillard, Burgin
and Tagg, and on the historians of mentalities, War and Photography
presents a theoretical approach to the understanding of press
photography in its historical and contemporary context. Brothers
applies her argument with special reference to French and British
newspaper images of the Spanish Civil War, a selection of which is
presented in the book. Rejecting analyses based upon the content of
the images alone, she argues that photographic meaning is largely
predetermined by its institutional and cultural context. Acting as
witnesses despite themselves, photographs convey a wealth of
information not about any objective reality, but about the
collective attitudes and beliefs particular to the culture in which
they operate.
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