Requiem With Yellow Butterflies
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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 Marìa 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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781760800130 |
Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
Imprint: | UWA Publishing |
Pub date: | 30 Jun 2019 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 266 |
Weight: | 277g |
Height: | 140mm |
Width: | 210mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |