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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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| Contents |
Requiem with yellow butterflies -- Caracas -- We want them alive -- Roraima and Manaus -- Don't care if it ever rains again -- And the village was fair to look upon -- Redcliffe -- Old peak, young peak -- Uluru: how to travel without seeing -- Porto Velho and Brasilia -- Coetzee in Buenos Aires -- Parque Lezama -- Such loneliness in that gold -- San Miguel del Monte -- The lakeside house. |
| Summary |
An Australian writer and a Mexican scientist fall in love reading great Latin American books aloud. But it takes a decade of journeys across the region, together and apart, for them to learn to read each other. Requiem with Yellow Butterflies is a love story and travel memoir that unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of Latin America in the 2000s. It takes us on a 1200-kilometre question-mark shaped loop through the newly socialist republics of the pink tide, to a requiem mass for Mexico's disappeared and eventually back to Australia. Through evocative, unexpected pairings of southern hemisphere places and authors - Jose Maria Arguedas's Andes and Judith Wright's Cooloola coast, the Argentine pampa and the central Queensland brigalow country - the book explores distinct but parallel postcolonial literary traditions, the disordering state of love and the strangeness of coming home. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Australia -- Description and travel.
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Latin America -- Description and travel.
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TRAVEL -- Australia & Oceania.
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Travel.
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Australia.
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Latin America.
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Travel & holiday.
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Literary studies: general.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Halford, James. Requiem with yellow butterflies. Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2019 9781760800130 (OCoLC)1085889217 |
| ISBN |
9781760800611 (electronic book) |
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1760800619 (electronic book) |
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9781760800628 (electronic book) |
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1760800627 (electronic book) |
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