The Twilight Zone

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451433
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Book Synopsis The Twilight Zone by : Nona Fernández

Download or read book The Twilight Zone written by Nona Fernández and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature * An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invaders It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández’s mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man’s face on the magazine’s cover with the words “I Tortured People.” His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian. Like a secret service agent from the future, through extraordinary feats of the imagination, Fernández follows the “man who tortured people” to places that archives can’t reach, into the sinister twilight zone of history where morning routines, a game of chess, Yuri Gagarin, and the eponymous TV show of the novel’s title coexist with the brutal yet commonplace machinations of the regime. How do crimes vanish in plain sight? How does one resist a repressive regime? And who gets to shape the truths we live by and take for granted? The Twilight Zone pulls us into the dark portals of the past, reminding us that the work of the writer in the face of historical erasure is to imagine so deeply that these absences can be, for a time, spectacularly illuminated.

Twilight Zone

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429929251
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Twilight Zone by : Harlan Ellison

Download or read book Twilight Zone written by Harlan Ellison and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original anthology celebrating Rod Serling's landmark television series When it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from much of the censors' strict oversight because of the show's classification as "science fiction," the 156 filmed episodes explored powerful and moving human themes—love, hate, pride, jealousy, terror—in their own unique style.The show has since inspired two revivals, as well as fiction, comic books, and magazines, and even a pinball game and theme park rides. Just as important, it sparked the imaginations of countless writers, filmmakers, and fans around the world, and is considered a seminal show for broadening the horizons of television. This anthology will be an all-new collection of stories written in the vein of the original television show. Edited and featured and introduction by Carol Serling, the anthology will include brand new stories by science fiction and fantasy luminaries such as Whitley Strieber, Loren D. Estleman, Joe Lansdale, R. L. Stine, Timothy Zahn, and Peter S. Beagle, as well as writers from the original series, Earl Hammer and Harlan Ellison®, all in honor of Rod's incredible vision. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Doomsday Book

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Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553562738
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Book Synopsis Doomsday Book by : Connie Willis

Download or read book Doomsday Book written by Connie Willis and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.

Human Matter

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477316469
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Book Synopsis Human Matter by : Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Download or read book Human Matter written by Rodrigo Rey Rosa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a decade ago, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa made his first visit to the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, scanned, and eventually published online. Bringing to light detailed evidence of crimes against humanity, the Archive Recovery Project inspired Rey Rosa to craft a meta-novel that weaves the language of arrest records and surveillance reports with the contemporary journal entries of a novelist (named Rodrigo) who is attempting to synthesize the stories of political activists, indigenous people, and other women and men who became ensnared in a deadly web of state-sponsored terrorism. When Rodrigo's access to the archive is suspended, he proceeds to the General Archives of Central America and the Library of Congress, also collaborating with the son of the Identification Bureau's former head in a relentless pursuit of understanding. Reminiscent of Roberto Bolaño's finely honed masterworks, Human Matter is both a tour de force of fiction and a sobering meditation on the realities of collective memory, raising timely questions about how our history is recorded and retold. Originally published in Spanish in 2009, its success demanded a subsequent publication in June of 2017.

Twilight Zone, the Movie

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Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446308403
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Twilight Zone, the Movie written by Robert Bloch and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1983 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bigoted man learns about intolerance by visiting the past, a gremlin terrifies an airplane passenger, a lonely boy controls the world, and a group of old people are given a chance to recapture their youth

Hyperspace

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199857768
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Hyperspace by : Michio Kaku

Download or read book Hyperspace written by Michio Kaku and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku, author of the widely acclaimed Beyond Einstein and a leading theoretical physicist, offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps most bizarre) work in modern physics, work which includes research on the tenth dimension, time warps, black holes, and multiple universes. The theory of hyperspace (or higher dimensional space)--and its newest wrinkle, superstring theory--stand at the center of this revolution, with adherents in every major research laboratory in the world, including several Nobel laureates. Beginning where Hawking's Brief History of Time left off, Kaku paints a vivid portrayal of the breakthroughs now rocking the physics establishment. Why all the excitement? As the author points out, for over half a century, scientists have puzzled over why the basic forces of the cosmos--gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces--require markedly different mathematical descriptions. But if we see these forces as vibrations in a higher dimensional space, their field equations suddenly fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, perfectly snug, in an elegant, astonishingly simple form. This may thus be our leading candidate for the Theory of Everything. If so, it would be the crowning achievement of 2,000 years of scientific investigation into matter and its forces. Already, the theory has inspired several thousand research papers, and has been the focus of over 200 international conferences. Michio Kaku is one of the leading pioneers in superstring theory and has been at the forefront of this revolution in modern physics. With Hyperspace, he has produced a book for general readers which conveys the vitality of the field and the excitement as scientists grapple with the meaning of space and time. It is an exhilarating look at physics today and an eye-opening glimpse into the ultimate nature of the universe.

The Infatuations

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307960730
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis The Infatuations by : Javier Marías

Download or read book The Infatuations written by Javier Marías and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST • From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder. "Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meets—and falls in love with—a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.

La Dimension Feliz Y Otros Destinos Para Navegar

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Publisher : Palibrio
ISBN 13 : 1463311737
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book La Dimension Feliz Y Otros Destinos Para Navegar written by Adri N. Gerardo Mateos Barrag N. and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En "La dimensión feliz y otros destinos para navegar" Adrián Mateos nos lleva a un viaje de autodescubrimiento expuesto en varias anécdotas, siendo la más importante de ellas, "La Dimensión Feliz", novela que nos narra la historia de un hombre que encuentra a un guía de otra dimensión, quien lo guiará a través de todas sus vidas para encontrar la felicidad y la libertad, en una aventura que abarcara todas las posibilidades de sus vidas como ser humano. El autor nos llevará de la mano por una serie de narraciones sobre liberación, desapego y felicidad, invitándonos a la reflexión y a la alegría del vivir, siempre con la premisa de que "Una vez que se suban al barco, ya no querrán dejar de navegar".

Space Invaders

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451069
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Book Synopsis Space Invaders by : Nona Fernández

Download or read book Space Invaders written by Nona Fernández and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s Chile Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella’s braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear that Estrella’s father was a ranking government officer implicated in the violent crimes of the Pinochet regime, and the question of what became of her after she left school haunts her erstwhile friends. Growing up, these friends—from her pen pal, Maldonado, to her crush, Riquelme—were old enough to sense the danger and tension that surrounded them, but were powerless in the face of it. They could control only the stories they told one another and the “ghostly green bullets” they fired in the video game they played obsessively. One of the leading Latin American writers of her generation, Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel

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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826366201
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis The Chilean Dictatorship Novel by : Helene Carol Weldt-Basson

Download or read book The Chilean Dictatorship Novel written by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the civil-rights abuses by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) were later recognized by reparations and truth commissions, the difficult emotions suffered by the victims and their families were often pushed into the background or out of the national conversation entirely. In response, novelists began writing memory of feelings experienced during the dictatorship into their books. In The Chilean Dictatorship Novel, Weldt-Basson examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives center on affect and emotions. Each chapter focuses on a different emotion: feelings of loss because of father abandonment and spatial injustice caused by the neoliberal urbanization of Santiago; despair articulated through tragic romances and affective landscapes; left-wing nostalgia and melancholia communicated through allegory; feelings of abjection caused by torture and betrayal; and the creation of affect through violent events, aggressive child play, and sexual torture. Through a close look at the work of José Donoso, Ariel Dorfman, Diamela Eltit, Carlos Franz, and Nona Fernández, among others, Weldt-Basson effectively argues that by inspiring emotion and creating empathy within readers, the authors of these books instill a drive in the readers for ongoing social-justice advocacy, thereby transforming the process of reading into a platform for future action. Weldt-Basson's landmark study will serve as a basis for the future study of Latin American literature for decades to come.

Dark Back of Time

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215701
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis Dark Back of Time by : Javier Marías

Download or read book Dark Back of Time written by Javier Marías and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves"--fiercely maintain to be a roman à clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed," Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Marías weaves together autobiography, a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico.

Twilight Zone Encyclopedia

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613738919
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Book Synopsis Twilight Zone Encyclopedia by : Steven Rubin

Download or read book Twilight Zone Encyclopedia written by Steven Rubin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its 1959 debut, The Twilight Zone has been an indelible part of the American cultural fabric and remains one of TV's most influential series. Assembled with the full cooperation of the Rod Serling estate, this fact-filled collectible includes biographies of every principal actor involved in the series, and detailed descriptions of the characters they played. The hundreds who toiled behind the scenes—producer, writers, and directors—enjoy a place of equal prominence. The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia is two books in one: an episode-by-episode guide and a compendium of credits, plot synopses, anecdotes, production details, never-before-seen images, and interviews with nearly everyone still alive who was associated with the show.

Notes of a Crocodile

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681370778
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis Notes of a Crocodile by : Qiu Miaojin

Download or read book Notes of a Crocodile written by Qiu Miaojin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does)

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Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0375865969
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does) written by Ruth White and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Meggie and David Blue are from another planet, they're a lot like Earth kids, with similar hopes and dreams, and can't wait to grow up. BUT they also have GROSSLY UNIQUE qualities, such as blue streaks in their hair that pop up randomly and language skills that sound like nothing on this planet. The story takes these alien kids, along with their mother and grandfather, by accident, to a far planet in which the society is not only oppressive but hostile to individual freedom. People are kept submissive through drugs and brainwashing. The Blues, who have spent time in free societies recognize the upside-down-ness of this world. They're almost helpless to do anything, but do what they can, plan their escape, and vow to help others.

Human Acts

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Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 1101906731
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Human Acts by : Han Kang

Download or read book Human Acts written by Han Kang and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize The internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian presents a “rare and astonishing” (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice. “Compulsively readable, universally relevant, and deeply resonant . . . in equal parts beautiful and urgent.”—The New York Times Book Review Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, HuffPost, Medium, Library Journal Amid a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho’s best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice. An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.

One month after being known in that island

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Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3775747702
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book One month after being known in that island written by Alanna Stang and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bis auf den heutigen Tag stellt der Karbik-Archipel eine der durch Kolonialismus am weitesten und tiefgreifendsten zergliederten Regionen der Welt dar. Spanien, Deutschland, England, die Niederlande und die USA beanspruchten Teile der Inselgruppe, um dort ihre vor allem wirtschaftlichen Interessen durchzusetzen. Das hieraus resultierende Mosaik verdeckte lange Zeit die ganz eigenständige, nicht von einem Eurozentrismus geprägte Kultur und Kunst in der Region. Die 2019 gegründete Caribbean Art Initiative macht es sich zur Aufgabe, die schillernde Originalität der karibischen Kunstszene international sichtbar zu machen. Die Publikation zur ersten großen Ausstellung – unter der Leitung karibischer Kuratoren – entsteht in Partnerschaft mit der Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger. Die Publikation fasst hierzu die wichtigsten Positionen karibischer Gegenwartskunst zusammen und macht sie erstmals einem breiten Publikum zugängig. VERTRETENE KÜNSTLER*INNEN Ramón Miranda Beltrán, Minia Biabiany, Christopher Cozier, Tessa Mars, Elisa Bergel Melo, José Morbán, Tony Cruz Pabón, Madeline Jiménez Santil

Monuments, Empires, and Resistance

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139464744
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Monuments, Empires, and Resistance written by Tom D. Dillehay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From AD 1550 to 1850, the Araucanian polity in southern Chile was a center of political resistance to the intruding Spanish empire. In this book, Tom D. Dillehay examines the resistance strategies of the Araucanians and how they used mound building and other sacred monuments to reorganize their political and culture life in order to unite against the Spanish. Drawing on anthropological research conducted over three decades, Dillehay focuses on the development of leadership, shamanism, ritual, and power relations. His study combines developments in social theory with the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records. Both theoretically and empirically informed, this book is a fascinating account of the only indigenous ethnic group to successfully resist outsiders for more than three centuries and to flourish under these conditions.