A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her passage through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Her observations carve a new3 route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.
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For an age half-convinced that travel writing as such is exhausted, there comes the option of meta-travel: writing that speculates on the meaning of travel even as the trip goes on. Such is the dizzying route taken by Rebecca Solnit ... a writer of startling freshness and precision. Her book provides a brilliant meditation on travel. * New York Times Book Review * Solnit impressively plaits together the landscape, identity politics, and literature of Ireland in this exquisite piece of writing. Truly exceptional, a paradise for readers. * Kirkus Reviews * This sensual and intellectually stimulating foray portrays an Ireland that the casual tourist might miss. * Publishers Weekly *
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 165 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-85984-885-2 (9781859848852)
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Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including a trilogy of atlases and the books The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award).
A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's.
