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Adriana Paramo Miguel

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Description:Unsent Letters to My Mother combines the skills of an anthropologist with the eye of a storyteller, making visible perspectives seldom explored in either literature or journalism: the expatriate woman in Kuwait, the woman as border-crosser, and the stories of struggle that rise above tragedy and travesty to highlight perseverance and hope. It is also a window into a hidden culture largely overlooked in the West, one in which slavery is alive and well, and back-street abortions, alcoholism, drug-smuggling, prostitution, domestic violence, and social inequality are as rampant as in any country of the Western hemisphere.The book is also a powerful testament to the author’s journey, as a woman as well as an anthropologist. The women’s stories and the analyses of the culture are all interspersed with the author’s evocative epistolary accounts of her failing marriage, an extra-marital affair, and her humiliating departure, all set against the backdrop of a wealthy kingdom torn between Muslim traditions and Westernization. Páramo merges ethnography, memoir, research, quest, epistolary, and poetry, inventing the language to describe a sustained exploration of women’s lives in Kuwait.“Seen through the eyes of Adriana Páramo, Kuwait rises up out of the desert as a complicated culture and country, layered with incredible beauty, prejudice, and misogyny. It is a place of joyful dancing, love and danger, a chimerical place where great wealth and poverty exist side by side, where Indian maids are horribly mistreated, and where a hidden love affair can blossom in clubs, forbidden parties, and nighttime forays into the desert. Páramo tells her story with emotional intensity, radiant insight, and witty humor. Her fierce spirit, tender passion, and resilient strength illuminate every page.” KAREN OSBORN, author of Between Earth and Sky"Páramo's writing soars in this astounding book, offering a compelling and complex narrative--complete with layers of secrets and a love story--that also traces the global intersections of wealth, poverty, and race as they collide in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion. The Colombian author treads into mortal danger amid privilege and patriarchy and the abject poverty of some South Asian workers. She fearlessly pursues the promise and limits of global sisterhood as she offers her heart and her mind through her roles as scientist, teacher, activist, anthropologist, lover, and spiritual seeker. This essential voice offers a fully realized memoir, one of the most accomplished and important works I have ever read." SONYA HUBER, author of Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous SystemWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unsent Letters to my Mother. To get started finding Unsent Letters to my Mother, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Unsent Letters to My Mother combines the skills of an anthropologist with the eye of a storyteller, making visible perspectives seldom explored in either literature or journalism: the expatriate woman in Kuwait, the woman as border-crosser, and the stories of struggle that rise above tragedy and travesty to highlight perseverance and hope. It is also a window into a hidden culture largely overlooked in the West, one in which slavery is alive and well, and back-street abortions, alcoholism, drug-smuggling, prostitution, domestic violence, and social inequality are as rampant as in any country of the Western hemisphere.The book is also a powerful testament to the author’s journey, as a woman as well as an anthropologist. The women’s stories and the analyses of the culture are all interspersed with the author’s evocative epistolary accounts of her failing marriage, an extra-marital affair, and her humiliating departure, all set against the backdrop of a wealthy kingdom torn between Muslim traditions and Westernization. Páramo merges ethnography, memoir, research, quest, epistolary, and poetry, inventing the language to describe a sustained exploration of women’s lives in Kuwait.“Seen through the eyes of Adriana Páramo, Kuwait rises up out of the desert as a complicated culture and country, layered with incredible beauty, prejudice, and misogyny. It is a place of joyful dancing, love and danger, a chimerical place where great wealth and poverty exist side by side, where Indian maids are horribly mistreated, and where a hidden love affair can blossom in clubs, forbidden parties, and nighttime forays into the desert. Páramo tells her story with emotional intensity, radiant insight, and witty humor. Her fierce spirit, tender passion, and resilient strength illuminate every page.” KAREN OSBORN, author of Between Earth and Sky"Páramo's writing soars in this astounding book, offering a compelling and complex narrative--complete with layers of secrets and a love story--that also traces the global intersections of wealth, poverty, and race as they collide in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion. The Colombian author treads into mortal danger amid privilege and patriarchy and the abject poverty of some South Asian workers. She fearlessly pursues the promise and limits of global sisterhood as she offers her heart and her mind through her roles as scientist, teacher, activist, anthropologist, lover, and spiritual seeker. This essential voice offers a fully realized memoir, one of the most accomplished and important works I have ever read." SONYA HUBER, author of Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous SystemWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unsent Letters to my Mother. To get started finding Unsent Letters to my Mother, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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