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UNINA9911002569303321 |
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Autore |
Beltran Michael S. |
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Titolo |
The Singing Detainee and the Librarian with One Book : Essays on Exile |
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Earth, Milky Way : , : Punctum Books, , 2025 |
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©2025 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (267 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Communists |
Exile (Punishment) in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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250515 singing detainee-cover-ebook-front -- 250515singingdetainee-print -- Foreword -- Author's Preface -- Introduction -- A Particular Purgatory -- Mangoes and Escape Plans -- Family of Exiles -- Superstar -- The Sentinel -- Knockin' on Heaven's Door -- Memories of Socialism -- Yet Again -- A Bottle of Wine -- Fighting Makes You Stronger -- Puri and Art -- The Singing Detainee and the Librarian with One Book -- Therein Lies the Difference -- The Workhorse -- Baptism by War -- Off-center -- No Binaries -- Out of the Attic -- Murmurs on a Train -- Turning Back the Tide -- The Polite Man -- Parting Suggestions -- References. |
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In late 2019, journalist Michael Beltran found himself in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, deep in conversation with Filipino revolutionary leaders Jose Maria Sison and Julie de Lima. What was planned to be a feature article ended up as a collection of observations on what it means to live in exile. Sison and de Lima are maligned by governments and revered by activists worldwide, all while spending most of their time tucked away in a small Dutch neighborhood. What Beltran realized was that it was impossible to speak of their exile without understanding the history and community surrounding it.The Singing Detainee and the Librarian with One Book shares lesser known tales about two of the most well-known revolutionary exiles and their comrades. It speaks of a community and history behind the ordeal, |
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weaving it into the Filipino diaspora. Sison passed away in December 2022, making this book a record of one of the last and arguably lengthiest interviews he ever gave. The essays track the couple's prolonged stay as refugees, how the Philippine liberation movement found a home in Europe, and how migrants and activists alike gravitated toward each other while adrift from their homeland. "Exile," Beltran says, "is imprisonment by displacement [...] when people are condemned to leave their lands dressed in invisible chains." |
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