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Notes from the middle world
- Title
- Notes from the middle world / Breyten Breytenbach.
- Author
- Breytenbach, Breyten.
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 10-1393 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 214 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "In dialogue with the dead and living - Nelson Mandela, Mahmoud Darwish, Barack Obama - internationally distinguished South African artist and writer Breyten Breytenbach's new collection of essays traces the collisions between utopia and disaster, political traumas and the renewal of hope. Notes from the Middle World is a beautiful and heart-wreching book. Against the conformity of power, breytenbach takes readers on a journey through the Middle World, an imagined space beyond borders and exile, toward an embracing vision of justice for the un-citizens post-modernity has dispossessed." -- Book cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- South African essays (English) – 21st century.
- Note
- Collection of essays.
- Contents
- Dancing -- Making being : on arts and culture -- Mandela's smile : glimpses from the mirror of our time -- Obamadela -- Imagining Africa -- The Afrikaner as African -- On "progress" -- The pity and the horror -- The nomadic conversation : with Mahmoud Darwish -- How we kill, kill, kill -- You screws! -- Notes from the middle world -- Of camels and dogs and rats when walking the words/staging the self : or, what it is like to live with somebody very much like myself -- Self-portrait/deathwatch : a note on autobiotrophy -- For Michael Fried : Paris, December 21, 2004 -- To bring to book.
- Call Number
- JFD 10-1393
- ISBN
- 9781931859912 (pbk.)
- 1931859914 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 318877012
- Author
- Breytenbach, Breyten.
- Title
- Notes from the middle world / Breyten Breytenbach.
- Imprint
- Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2009.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 10-1393