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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel Fishchlin , Daniel Fischlin , Martha NandorfyPublisher: Black Rose Books Imprint: Black Rose Books Dimensions: Width: 0.60cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 0.90cm Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9781551641782ISBN 10: 155164178 Pages: 434 Publication Date: 11 May 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsTraces a magnificent path through the immense and difficult work of Galeano. Especially insightful is the exploration of how the great journalist is transformed into a poet, how the militant activist in search of justice transmutes into an artist. - Enrique Dussel """Traces a magnificent path through the immense and difficult work of Galeano. Especially insightful is the exploration of how the great journalist is transformed into a poet, how the militant activist in search of justice transmutes into an artist."" - Enrique Dussel" One of Latin America's most powerful voices in the fight against oppression, Eduardo Galeano has been compared to the philosopher Noam Chomsky. But where Chomsky's ideology finds expression in the empirical study of language, Galeano's has diversified into fiction, creating a seductively subversive embrace as dangerous and fertile as the institutions and geo-political realities he attacks. In a marriage of beauty with justice, the commitment to the principle of human freedom underpinning the work of Eduardo Galeano involves not only critique but a step into the aesthetic. Eduardo Hughes Galeano was born in Montevideo in 1940. Dropping out of school after only two years at secondary level, he felt, he claimed, like the playwright George Bernard Shaw: 'when I was seven years old I was obliged to stop my education by going to school.' Once free of formal restrictions, Galeano's learning took off. In September 1954, this 'exceptionally precocious' 14-year-old had his first article accepted by a Uruguayan socialist weekly. By the age of 20 he had become the managing editor of Marcha, a magazine renowned for its political influence. 1973 saw Marcha shut down by the military during a right-wing coup; Galeano was imprisoned. Exile, penury and persecution followed, his name finding its way onto a list of those condemned by the Argentinian death squads. Yet, believing the old proverb that it is better to advance and die than stand still and die, Galeano refused to be silenced. His emergence as a novelist, journalist, revisionist historian and human rights activist of enormous influence speaks not only of his singular talent but an indefatigable dedication. Despite his achievements, however, the writings of Eduardo Galeano have been largely ignored by scholarly disciplines as unworthy of their critical attention. This new assessment of his work, while suffering in places from a near-fatal attack of academic-speak, rectifies that omission. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationDaniel Fischlin is a professor in the School of Literatures and Performance Studies in English at the University of Guelph. Martha Nandorfy is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Brock University. Both have published extensively in various areas of literary criticism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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