Julian Aguon

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

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Produktbeschreibung

"No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice -- for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples -- his own and others."--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Astra Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm x 130mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9781662601637
• ISBN-10: 1662601638
• Artikelnr.: 63598009

Autorenporträt

Julian Aguon is a Chamorro human rights lawyer and defender from Guam. He is the founder of Blue Ocean Law, a progressive firm that works at the intersection of Indigenous rights and environmental justice; and serves on the council of Progressive International—a global collective with the mission of mobilizing progressive forces around the world behind a shared vision of social justice. He lives in the village of Yona. Visit julianaguon.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Arundhati Roy 
The Properties of Perpetual Light 
Go with the Moon 
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies 
My Mother’s Bamboo Bracelets: A Handful of Lessons on Saving the World 
A Handful of Lessons on Saving the World 
Sherman Alexie Looked Me Dead in the Eye Once 
More Right 
Birthday Cakes Mean Birthdays 
Yugu Means Yoke 
A Crowbar and a Conch Shell 
The Gift Anne Gave Me 
Nirmal Hriday 
Mugo' 
The Ocean Within 
We Have No Need for Scientists 59 We Reach for You 
Reflections While Driving 
Nikki and Me 
Onion and Garlic 
Fighting Words 
Yeye Tere 
Our Father 
Gaosåli 
Curved Sticks and Cowry Shells: A Conversation between Julian Aguon &
Desiree Taimanglo-Ventura 
Afterword