What Is Mine (eBook)

José Henrique Bortoluci (Autor)

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2024
160 Seiten
Fitzcarraldo Editions (Verlag)
978-1-80427-086-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In What Is Mine, sociologist José Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didi's work as a truck driver took him away from home for long stretches at a time as he crisscrossed the country and participated in huge infrastructure projects including the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a scheme spearheaded by the military dictatorship of the time, undertaken through brutal deforestation. An observer of history, Didi also recounts the toll his work has taken on his health, from a heart attack in middle age to the cancer that defines his retirement. Bortoluci weaves the history of a nation with that of a man, uncovering parallels between cancer and capitalism – both sustained by expansion, both embodiments of 'the gospel of growth at any cost' – and traces the distance that class has placed between him and his father. Influenced by authors such as Annie Ernaux and Svetlana Alexievich, What Is Mine is a moving, thought-provoking and brilliantly constructed examination of the scars we carry, as people and as countries.

Autor

José Henrique Bortoluci was born in Jaú in 1984. He has a BA in International Relations and an MA in Social History from the University of São Paulo, as well as an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan, where he lectured and was a Fulbright fellow. He is a professor of Sociology at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, where his lectures and research revolve around Brazilian politics, social theory, democracy and social movements.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2024
• Übersetzer: Rahul Bery
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Annie Ernaux • books in translation • Brazil • Cancer • Capitalism • Family • Illness • Interviews • Jair Bolsonaro • Memoir • Ocean Vuong • Oral History • personal history • Society • Svetlana Alexievich • twentieth century history
• ISBN-10: 1-80427-086-5 / 1804270865
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80427-086-8 / 9781804270868