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A brilliant work of historical excavation with profound echoes in an age redolent with violence and xenophobiaEarly in the twentieth century, amid the myths of progress and modernity that underpinned Mexico's ruling party, some three hundred Chinese immigrants-close to half of the Cantonese residents of the newly founded city of Torreon-were massacred over the course of three days. It is consid...
E-bog
88,06 DKK
Forlag
Graywolf Press
Udgivet
16 april 2019
Længde
304 sider
Genrer
1KLCM
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781555978846
A brilliant work of historical excavation with profound echoes in an age redolent with violence and xenophobiaEarly in the twentieth century, amid the myths of progress and modernity that underpinned Mexico's ruling party, some three hundred Chinese immigrants-close to half of the Cantonese residents of the newly founded city of Torreon-were massacred over the course of three days. It is considered the largest slaughter of Chinese people in the history of the Americas, but more than a century later, the facts continue to be elusive, mistaken, and repressed."e;And what do you know about the Chinese people who were killed here?"e; Julian Herbert asks anyone who will listen. An exorcism of persistent and discomfiting ghosts, The House of the Pain of Others attempts a reckoning with the 1911 massacre. Looping, digressive, and cinematic, Herbert blends reportage, personal reflection, essay, and academic research to portray the historical context as well as the lives of the perpetrators and victims of the "e;small genocide."e; This brilliant historical excavation echoes profoundly in an age redolent with violence and xenophobia.