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Author
Publisher
Editoral Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La resistencia es un libro para aquellos que saben leer los símbolos que se abisman entre uno y el universo: la incomunicación, el narcisismo, la reverencia a los dioses de la televisión, el trabajo deshumanizado, el imperio de la máquina sobre el ser, el sometimiento y la masificación, el creciente sentimiento de orfandad, la competencia feroz y el vértigo apocalíptico en el que toda posibilidad de diálogo desaparece. Entonces la pregunta...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization unfolded across territories as well as within them. Its struggles became internationalized and transnational, as much global campaigns of moral disarmament against colonial injustice as local contests of arms. In this expansive history,...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"English teacher by day, Maddie Ryan spends her nights and weekends as the rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called "The Lab" in Houston's Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins "Save the Eighth," a Black-led organizing movement fighting for the neighborhood. At first, she's only...
Author
Publisher
Black Lawrence Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set entirely in the Bangalore region of South India, Boomtown Girl explores the ambitions, delusions, and struggles of people navigating a rapidly developing city. A rebellious teenager and her workaholic father confront their mutual distrust while dining at a newly opened Pizza Hut; a tailor nostalgic for his past glory in the employ of an Englishman grows obsessed with an American customer; a techie, his fianc�ee having broken off their engagement,...
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