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I Live Here

Door Mia Kirshner

Categorie
Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer
#406628-LI14
Titel
I Live Here
Auteur
Kirshner, Mia
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
New York : Pantheon
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
0375424784
ISBN13
9780375424786
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original pictorial folder with 4 paperbacks inserted, numerous illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
Live Here is a visually stunning narrative — told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas — in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global. Bearing witness to stories that are too often overlooked, it is a raw and intimate journey to crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi.
The voiceswe encounterare those of displaced women and children, in their own words or in stories told in text and images by noted writers and artists. The stories unfold in an avalanche: An orphan goes to jail for stealing leftovers. A teenage girl falls in love in a city of disappeared women. A child soldier escapes his army only to be saved by the people he was taug
... (Lees verder)ht to kill.
Mia Kirshner's journals guide us through a unique paper documentary brought vividly to life in collaboration with J. B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons, with featured works by Joe Sacco, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Phoebe Gloeckner, Chris Abani, Karen Connelly, Kamel Khelif, and many others.
Pagina's
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Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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