Homeland Security ate my speech : messages from the end of the world

Book 2017

"Ariel Dorfman's latest collection is an emotionally raw yet measured assessment of the United States after the election of Donald Trump, highlighting the troubling parallels between Trump and repressive regimes of the past. With corruption and repression looming, Dorfman wonders, can the United States avoid the same kind of political interference it practiced in the past? Concise, original, and even playful, Dorfman provides a clear-eyed take on...

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ISBN:

9781944869632

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viii, 213 pages ; 20 cm

Contents:

Introduction: Grieving for America
Part one. The rise of Donald J. Trump
Philip II, the sixteenth century Spanish monarch, writes to His Excellency Donald Trump
America meets Frankenstein
My mother and Trump's border
Latin American food and the failure of Trump's wall
Faulkner's question for America
Part two. The judgment of history
Now, America, you know how Chile felt
The River Kwai passes through the Latin America and the Potomac: what it feels like to be tortured
Words of encouragement for Donald J. Trump from James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States
A message form the end of the world
Should Iago be tortured?
Mission akkomplished: from Comrade Bush to Tovarisch Trump
Part three. Models of resistance from the past
Martin Luther King marches on
Searching for Mandela
The truth that made her free
Reading Cervantes in captivity
The dancing cosmos of Albert Einstein
Revisiting Melville in Chile
Part four. What is to be done?
Homeland security ate my speech
Alice in Leftland: will you, won't you dance?
They're watching us: so what?
How we overcame tyranny before: take heart, friends!
The whispering leaves of the Hiroshima ginko trees

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2626186

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