Text Messages: or How I Found Myself Time Traveling - Brossura

Alsalman, Yassin

 
9781642591507: Text Messages: or How I Found Myself Time Traveling
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ISBN 10: 1642591505 ISBN 13: 9781642591507
Casa editrice: Haymarket Books, 2020

Sinossi

Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman. Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy 's writing speaks of the existential crises experienced by diasporic children of war before and during imperialism in the age of the Internet.

Narcy 's verses span the space between hip-hop and manifesto, portraying a crumbling, end-stage capitalist society, visions for a new reality, and exposes the myth of multiculturalism in post-9/11 North America. The wordsmith hollows and transmogrifies the grotesque excess of the West by juxtaposing McLife with images of death, destruction, and trauma in the East.

From the depths of apathetic consumerism arises a voice of spiritual self-realization that explodes the misrepresented, mythical monolith of Islam in the West and with the rubble builds healing through intelligent resistance and radical love.

"Young boys and girls trapped in Walmarts-- our consumer interim camps. A family-friendly, discounted freedom. You don 't see what the Internet can 't. Not our land or home. Not your mans or holmes. Not your towers or domes. Not your power or drones."

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Informazioni sull?autore

Real name Yassin Alsalman, Narcy is a musician, director, professor, writer, and actor. He teaches a hip-hop production class and a cultural study of rap and politics at Concordia University. He is the cofounder of WeAreTheMedium, a culture point for publishing, media, and the arts. He currently resides in Montreal, has his heart in the Arab world, and is grounded on planet Earth. Most importantly, he is a father of two.

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Editore
Haymarket Books
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1642591505
ISBN 13 
9781642591507
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
181
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781642592313: Text Messages: Or How I Found Myself Time Traveling

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ISBN 10:  1642592315 ISBN 13:  9781642592313
Casa editrice: Haymarket Books, 2020
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