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ISBN | 9781760800130 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | 254 pages ; 21 cm |
Categories | DU - Oceania (South Seas) |
Product Weight | 285 gms. |
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An Australian writer and a Mexican scientist fall in love reading great Latin American books aloud. But it takes a decade of journeys across the region, together and apart, for them to learn to read each other. Requiem with Yellow Butterflies is a love story and travel memoir that unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of Latin America in the 2000s. It takes us on a 1200-kilometre question-mark shaped loop through the newly socialist republics of the "pink tide," to a requiem mass for Mexico's disappeared and eventually back to Australia. Through evocative, unexpected pairings of southern hemisphere places and authors - Jose Maria Arguedas's Andes and Judith Wright's Cooloola coast, the Argentine pampa and the central Queensland brigalow country - the book explores distinct but parallel postcolonial literary traditions, the disordering state of love and the strangeness of coming home. Halford, James, | Writers -- Biography. | Man-woman relationships. | Travel. | Travel & holiday. | Literary studies: general. | South America. | Australian