Requiem with yellow butterflies /

Requiem with yellow butterflies /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Halford, James, author.
Imprint:	Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource (254 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Travel. Australia -- Description and travel. Latin America -- Description and travel. Australia. Latin America.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13585024

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ISBN:	9781760800611 1760800619 9781760800628 1760800627 9781760800130 1760800139
Notes:	Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Halford, James. Requiem with yellow butterflies. Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2019 9781760800130

Table of Contents:

Requiem with yellow butterflies
Caracas
We want them alive
Roraima & 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 & Brasilia
Coetzee in Buenos Aires
Parque Lezama
Such loneliness in that gold
San Miguel del Monte
The lakeside house.