The land between two rivers : writing in an age of refugees

The Resource The land between two rivers : writing in an age of refugees
Label
The land between two rivers : writing in an age of refugees
Title remainder
writing in an age of refugees
Statement of responsibility
Tom Sleigh
Title variation
Land between 2 rivers
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"These essays recount Tom Sleigh's experiences working as a journalist during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, "the land between two rivers." Sleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate. But unlike their depiction in mass media, their stories are often laced with an undeluded hopefulness. The second part of this book explores how writing might be capable of honoring the texture of these individuals' experiences while remaining faithful to political emotions, rather than political convictions. The final essays meditate on youth, restlessness, illness, and Sleigh's motivations for writing his own experiences in order to move out into the world."--Back cover
Member of
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
YDX
Dewey number
814/.54
Index
no index present
Literary form
essays

Context

Context of The land between two rivers : writing in an age of refugees

Work of

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Grosse Pointe Public Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.
Processing Feedback ...