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Generation Exile

The Lives I Leave Behind

By: Rodrigo Dorfman

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Generation Exile

The Lives I Leave Behind

By: Rodrigo Dorfman

“If you ever sing those songs again, they will kill your daddy,” the boy’s mother warned him after he continued to sing one of the hymns of the Chilean revolution in public. Rodrigo Dorfman, the son of prominent dissidents, was six years old when his family fled Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship a month after the CIA-backed coup in 1973. In his fascinating memoir, Dorfman writes about his experiences as an exile and a migrant. He was dragged away from his homeland, “seduced by the thrill of flying on airplanes and visiting far-away places,” but reassured the family would return soon. They fled to Argentina, and then to Havana, Paris, Amsterdam and finally Bethesda, Maryland. His muse and identity were “sealed and stamped with that curse, with that blessing, with that irresistible myth: the eternal return.” Mapping the memory of exile, he remembers the contradiction of living with his seething anger at losing his home and his resistance to settling down. Rebellion was an ancestral badge of honor he wore proudly. At 18, he returned to Chile and fought against the fascist dictatorship, running for his life with bullets and tear gas flying by. Dorfman’s involvement in the resistance movement there planted the seeds for his future life as a community-centered documentary filmmaker. His restless search for a place to call his own led to his wandering—around the United States, to Morocco and Turkey and the Path of Sufism. He finally made a home in the American South, where he became a “Latino” and found kinship with other immigrants who settled there. This compelling narrative recounts a displaced man’s life-long quest to establish family, roots and a sense of belonging by bearing witness to what he calls the “Nuevo South.”

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1518507549

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9781518507540

27 Views of Durham

The Bull City in Prose & Poetry

By: Jean Anderson,Jim Wise,Katy Munger,Ariel Dorfman,Rodrigo Dorfman,Barry Yeoman,Clyde Edgerton,Pam Spaulding,Diane Daniel,Cliff Bellamy

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27 Views of Durham

The Bull City in Prose & Poetry

By: Jean Anderson,Jim Wise,Katy Munger,Ariel Dorfman,Rodrigo Dorfman,Barry Yeoman,Clyde Edgerton,Pam Spaulding,Diane Daniel,Cliff Bellamy

Eno Publishers builds on its successful 27 Views series by showcasing the literary community of Durham, North Carolina, in 27 Views of Durham: The Bull City in Prose & Poetry. The book features 27 writers, who in poetry, essays, short stories, and book excerpts focus on the town of Durham, famous for Duke University, tobacco, and Southern cuisine. The collection offers readers a broad and varied picture of life past and present in Durham, as well as a sense of the town's literary breadth. Contributing authors include Steve Schewel, Jean Anderson, Carl Kenney, Katy Munger, Ariel Dorfman, Pierce Freelon, John Valentine, Shirlette Ammons, Jim Wise, and others.

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Eno Publishers

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0983247536

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9780983247531

Generation Exile

The Lives I Leave Behind

By: Rodrigo Dorfman

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Kinetic Theory and Transport Phenomena

By: Rodrigo Soto

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Kinetic Theory and Transport Phenomena

By: Rodrigo Soto

One of the questions about which humanity has often wondered is the arrow of time. Why does temporal evolution seem irreversible? That is, we often see objects break into pieces, but we never see them reconstitute spontaneously. This observation was first put into scientific terms by the so-called second law of thermodynamics: entropy never decreases. However, this law does not explain the origin of irreversibly; it only quantifies it. Kinetic theory gives a consistent explanation of irreversibility based on a statistical description of the motion of electrons, atoms, and molecules. The concepts of kinetic theory have been applied to innumerable situations including electronics, the production of particles in the early universe, the dynamics of astrophysical plasmas, quantum gases or the motion of small microorganisms in water, with excellent quantitative agreement. This book presents the fundamentals of kinetic theory, considering classical paradigmatic examples as well as modern applications. It covers the most important systems where kinetic theory is applied, explaining their major features. The text is balanced between exploring the fundamental concepts of kinetic theory (irreversibility, transport processes, separation of time scales, conservations, coarse graining, distribution functions, etc.) and the results and predictions of the theory, where the relevant properties of different systems are computed.

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Oxford University Press

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0191025143

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The Night

By: Rodrigo Blanco Calderon

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The Night

By: Rodrigo Blanco Calderon

For readers who love Bolaño, a new voice of Latin American fiction, winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa Prize. Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night; and his patient, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. The author shifts between crime fiction and metafiction, cautioning readers that the events retold are both true and manipulated. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010. The title of the book, originally also in English, is a gesture towards Chavism's failure to resist US influence. Yet, the form is unapologetically literary, a reflection on the depiction and distortion of reality through storytelling. Blanco Calderón said about the potential of language, "I am convinced that all the evil in the world begins in them: in words" (Caracas, 2010).

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Seven Stories Press

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164421041X

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9781644210413

Young People, Media, and Nostalgia

An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

By: Rodrigo Muñoz-González

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Young People, Media, and Nostalgia

An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

By: Rodrigo Muñoz-González

This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgia and grasp a sense of nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young audiences make sense of nostalgic representations of transnational pasts, thus creating a link between media reception practices and the engagement with broader social, cultural, economic, and political structures. It also brings to the fore new insights concerning the role media has in fostering senses of national memory by highlighting the key role of everyday media engagements in comprehending the past. This comprehensive empirical study will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of media and communications studies, Latin American studies, sociology, digital culture, memory studies, social and cultural anthropology, youth studies, cultural studies, and readers interested in popular culture, television, and cinema.

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227

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Taylor & Francis

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1040156851

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9781040156858

Rolex

By: Rodrigo López Landauro

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Rolex

By: Rodrigo López Landauro

ROLEX cuenta la historia de un reloj, un Rolex GMT Master de oro, que pasando de dueño en dueño, viaja por el mundo y es mudo testigo de eventos históricos, de muerte, de tragedias, de aventuras y los diferentes aspectos del carácter humano.

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Lulu.com

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0244607281

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9780244607289

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