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Using ethnographic field data from the Larzac plateau in Southern
France, Alexander and Sonia Alland document one of the longest and
most successful popular protests in modern French history - the
Larzac movement. More than a record of events, the book describes
the transformation from the early 1970s of rural defiance into a
symbol of left-wing action for France and the world. This revised
edition examines the activities of the movement since 1995,
including the demonstrations at the Seattle meeting of the World
Trade Organisation, the 'great hamburger war' against McDonalds,
and the broadening of the movement to embrace struggles elsewhere,
such as the anti-nuclear protests in French Polynesia. Particular
attention is paid to the charismatic Jose Bove, who has become the
figurehead and focus of the campaign during this period.
This account will be of particular interest to anthropologists and
historians of contemporary France and Europe as well as students of
protest and social movements, and of contemporary politics in
general
Using ethnographic field data from the Larzac plateau in Southern
France, Alexander and Sonia Alland document one of the longest and
most successful popular protests in modern French history - the
Larzac movement. More than a record of events, the book describes
the transformation from the early 1970s of rural defiance into a
symbol of left-wing action for France and the world. This revised
edition examines the activities of the movement since 1995,
including the demonstrations at the Seattle meeting of the World
Trade Organisation, the 'great hamburger war' against McDonalds,
and the broadening of the movement to embrace struggles elsewhere,
such as the anti-nuclear protests in French Polynesia. Particular
attention is paid to the charismatic Jose Bove, who has become the
figurehead and focus of the campaign during this period.
This account will be of particular interest to anthropologists and
historians of contemporary France and Europe as well as students of
protest and social movements, and of contemporary politics in
general
Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author
of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child
laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under
Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Arabic; once he was
released form prison, he continued to work against the regime,
ultimately, at age twenty-one, choosing exile in Paris. He now
writes in French, but he remains a poet of exile, of memory,
wounded by the loss of his homeland and those dear to him. This
landmark collection gathers thirty-five years of his writings, from
his first volume in Arabic, Memory of Embers, to his latest
collection, written originally in French, For You I Dream. It
offers English-language readers their first substantial overview of
Al Hamdani's work, fired by the fight against injustice and shot
through with longing for the home to which he can never return.
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The Legend (Paperback)
Marie Bronsard; Translated by Sonia Alland
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R305
R194
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Now in paperback, Marie Bronsard's strikingly original memoir
reweaves the history of her family-and the legend of her
grandmother-leaving no stone unturned and no skeleton in the
closet. Egocentric and domineering, Bronsard's grandmother was once
a vibrant and sensual beauty. In Indochina at the end of the Second
World War, she thrived in the social life of the French colony, but
her young soldier husband sought a quieter existence, finding
solace in the companionship of their adolescent daughter,
Bronsard's mother. The consequences of this choice reverberate
throughout the family. But far from being an airing of grievance or
dirty laundry, Bronsard's memoir has the air of catharsis-here, the
pain, secrets, and comic moments of Bronsard's family are
remembered with gentle humor, understanding, and affection. A wry
irony tempers emotion, and it is in these pages that the author, at
last, finds it possible to name the woman of the legend and perhaps
bring her grandmother a measure of peace.
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