Carolina Rivera Escamilla

...after...

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How does one keep compassion alive while suffering the loss of love and close friendship? How does a witness to atrocious human rights violations search for meaning in an unstable world? Carolina Rivera Escamilla's collection of short stories, entitled ...after... chronicles a girl's coming of age in turbulent times. She confronts repression, poverty, civil war, dashed parental hopes for disappearing and disappeared children, and the death squad murders of friends and family in 1980s El Salvador. As everything breaks apart, she and her people reach for shreds of certainty and hope in a future for everyone.In ...after.... Rivera composts memory. Her book lays it on, breaks it down, stirs it up, and mixes it with bravado and brilliance. Rivera's language is plastic, visual and malleable. It inspires and shapes images. It adapts itself well to the subtleties of the Salvadoran world of the eighties. She carries them into a world of intimacy, the better to draw us into the emotions contained beneath her words. It is beautiful to discover her and to get to know her through her work.

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Produktdetails

• World Stage Press Classroom
• Verlag: Touchladybirdlucky Studios
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780985865931
• ISBN-10: 0985865938
• Artikelnr.: 58739474

Autorenporträt

"Carolina Rivera Escamilla is a writer, performer, filmmaker, and educator. Born in El Salvador, she was granted political asylum in Canada in 1985. Four years later, as the Berlin Wall fell and the guerillas of El Salvador made their final offensive, Carolina joined the massive migration of Salvadoran refugees from civil war and eventually landed in Los Angeles where she could be more involved with the culture and politics of her community. She completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing at University of California, Los Angeles. A Fellow in the PEN America Emerging Voices Program. She has been published in Analecta Literary Arts Journal, Texas Austin University, Hostos Review CUNY University, Pen America/ Strange Cargo, Anthology. Collateral Damage "Women Who Write About War" Anthology, University of Virginia Press, among others and is the writer, director, and producer of the documentary: Manlio Argueta, Poets and Volcanoes.