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Landscapes of war : from Sarajevo to Chechnya / Juan Goytisolo ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush ; introduction by Tariq Ali.
- Title
- Landscapes of war : from Sarajevo to Chechnya / Juan Goytisolo ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush ; introduction by Tariq Ali.
- Author
- Goytisolo, Juan
- Publication
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, c2000.
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- Additional Authors
- Bush, Peter R., 1946-
- Description
- xi, 225 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Provides an examination of the tensions that exist between the West and Islamic societies of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s, provide historical analysis and first-person reportage of life in four war-zones: Sarajevo, Algeria, the West Bank and Gaza, and Chechnya. Goytisolo shows how relations between Islam and the West continue to be shaped in a climate of ideological, political, and cultural confrontation. --From publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- Chiefly a collection of previously published essays first published in El Pais and then translated and published in the Times.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Sarajevo notebook. The crack marksman ; The mousetrap ; Hospitals, cemeteries, Oslobodenje ; The record of horror ; Memoricide ; One way to earn a living ; An orthodox arc for the Islamic serpent ; Europe's shame ; Good-bye Sarajevo -- Algeria. A bitter awakening ; Islam & politics ; The causes of the Islamic salvation front ; From Boudiaf's martydom to the second battle of Algiers ; Terror ; Of sermons and satellite disks ; Musical chairs -- Neither peace nor war: the West Bank and Gaza. The Gaza powder keg ; Arafat in the lobster pot ; Between Hamas and Rabin ; Dividends of peace? ; Separated and enmeshed ; Dream and nightmare -- Chechnya. Sufi brotherhoods ; "Good-bye to you, foul land of the Russian" ; Tolstoy and war in the Caucasus: Hadji Murad ; Tzar Boris ; Urbicide, massacres, and mass graves ; Shifting frontiers ; To the mountains -- Approaches to Islam.
- ISBN
- 0872863735 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^00034642^
- OCLC
- 44426956
- SCSB-11231977
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library