The Years of Blood
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3139-0 (ISBN)
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For forty years and more Alma Guillermoprieto has wandered tirelessly over the Latin Americas, interviewing assassins and the families of their victims, talking to street sweepers and artists, rowdy carnival makers and thoughtful politicians (and plenty of rowdy politicians as well). Guillermoprieto draws out common threads in different contexts, like the effects of The War on Drugs in rural and poverty-stricken regions and the experiences of people mixed up in the fray of violence and drug trafficking. At the same time, she shows how Latin American art translates nostalgia and pain into great beauty. In The Years of Blood, the third volume of her collected stories, she completes her complex and always compelling portrait of the Latin America of our times, in all its tragedy and glory, as it traverses a new era of populism and demagoguery, and tries, yet again, to answer the great unsolved question: How do we change? How do we change our future so that it does not so exhaustingly resemble our past?
Alma Guillermoprieto’s reports from the field have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and National Geographic magazine. Among many other distinctions, she has received a MacArthur Fellowship and the Princess of Asturias Humanities Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a laureate of the George Polk Awards in Journalism.
Introduction. A Reporting Life in Latin America 1
Part I. South America
1. Bolivia’s Tarnished Savior 13
2. In the Wrestling Rings of Bolivia 23
3. Don’t Cry for me, Venezuela 29
4. Confrontation in Colombia 43
5. Colombia’s Healing Begins 53
6. Confessions of a Killer 63
7. Claudia Andujar: Witness to Yanomami’s Last Struggle 75
Part II. Central America
8. Nicaragua’s Dreadful Duumvirate 85
9. Death Comes for the Archbishop 97
10. In the New Gangland of El Salvador 105
Part III.
11. “The Morning Quickie” 119
12. The Mission of Father Maciel 133
13. Troubled Spirits 141
14. Risking Life for Truth 149
15. A Voice against the Darkness 159
16. Making the Dogs Dance 163
17. A Lost World on the Map 169
18. The High Art of the Tamale 181
19. The Twisting Nature of Love: Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma 189
20. Forty-Three Students Went Missing: What Really Happened to Them? 215
Acknowledgments 241
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.4.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | American Encounters/Global Interactions |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-3139-5 / 1478031395 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-3139-0 / 9781478031390 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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