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سفر التكوين
by أسامة إسبر, Eduardo Galeano, إدواردو غاليانو
Yes.
I fell in love with history the second I got out of high school and realized how much of history is a story of people struggling against oppression and injustice. Struggling for democracy and equality. Struggling to make a better world...those born oppressed and those born oppressor, together.
Colonialism is as much the story of those who fought back as the story of those who "won." America* is as much the story of its Indigenous nations as the story of its first undocumented** immigrants. As much the story of Palmares as conquistadores. I wish I could give you some concrete examples of all this or quotes or something, from the book, but I left my copy with my dad the other day.***
Genesis is a beautiful book of history-as-story. This isn't something to pick up without a certain grounding in the more mundane facts of Latin American history: being familiar with the characters and settings in Galeano's stories is key. I'd probably recommend starting with [b:Open Veins of Latin America|187149|Open Veins of Latin America|Eduardo Hughes Galeano|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172537545s/187149.jpg|771351] if you want to read Galeano's work, rather than with Memory of Fire. However, having read this I will certainly be reading the rest of the trilogy at some point.
*You know I usually mean the continent, right?
**In which I find that I cannot bring myself to say "illegal," even ironically.
***Who semi-despises the Latin American left, but he'll come around one of these days.
I fell in love with history the second I got out of high school and realized how much of history is a story of people struggling against oppression and injustice. Struggling for democracy and equality. Struggling to make a better world...those born oppressed and those born oppressor, together.
Colonialism is as much the story of those who fought back as the story of those who "won." America* is as much the story of its Indigenous nations as the story of its first undocumented** immigrants. As much the story of Palmares as conquistadores. I wish I could give you some concrete examples of all this or quotes or something, from the book, but I left my copy with my dad the other day.***
Genesis is a beautiful book of history-as-story. This isn't something to pick up without a certain grounding in the more mundane facts of Latin American history: being familiar with the characters and settings in Galeano's stories is key. I'd probably recommend starting with [b:Open Veins of Latin America|187149|Open Veins of Latin America|Eduardo Hughes Galeano|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172537545s/187149.jpg|771351] if you want to read Galeano's work, rather than with Memory of Fire. However, having read this I will certainly be reading the rest of the trilogy at some point.
*You know I usually mean the continent, right?
**In which I find that I cannot bring myself to say "illegal," even ironically.
***Who semi-despises the Latin American left, but he'll come around one of these days.