图书标签: 美国当代文学 KateBrown
发表于2024-12-23
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“Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?” asks one chapter of Kate Brown’s surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana—America’s largest environmental Superfund site—have much more in common than one would think thanks to similarities in climate, hucksterism, and the perseverance of their few hardy inhabitants. Taking readers to these and other unlikely locales, Dispatches from Dystopia delves into the very human and sometimes very fraught ways we come to understand a particular place, its people, and its history.
In Dispatches from Dystopia, Brown wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version—the real or the virtual—is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese-Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the annual male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration of Hasidic Jews. In the Russian southern Urals, she speaks with the citizens of the small city of Kyshtym, where invisible radioactive pollutants have mysteriously blighted lives. Finally, Brown returns home to Elgin, Illinois, in the midwestern industrial rust belt to investigate the rise of “rustalgia” and the ways her formative experiences have inspired her obsession with modernist wastelands.
Dispatches from Dystopia powerfully and movingly narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. In telling these previously unknown stories, Brown examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.
Kate Brown is professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is also the author of Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland and Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters.
探访被遗忘的角落,充满了对历史的深层思考、对个体被时代辗轧的无奈与浓浓的人文关怀,第2章(西雅图某宾馆地下室日裔美国人珍珠港后被关押前存放的私人物品)、第6章(苏联某古拉格城镇与美国某西部小镇的惊人相似)可读性最强,其余章节词藻较华丽,过于文艺,有些沉闷。
评分探访被遗忘的角落,充满了对历史的深层思考、对个体被时代辗轧的无奈与浓浓的人文关怀,第2章(西雅图某宾馆地下室日裔美国人珍珠港后被关押前存放的私人物品)、第6章(苏联某古拉格城镇与美国某西部小镇的惊人相似)可读性最强,其余章节词藻较华丽,过于文艺,有些沉闷。
评分探访被遗忘的角落,充满了对历史的深层思考、对个体被时代辗轧的无奈与浓浓的人文关怀,第2章(西雅图某宾馆地下室日裔美国人珍珠港后被关押前存放的私人物品)、第6章(苏联某古拉格城镇与美国某西部小镇的惊人相似)可读性最强,其余章节词藻较华丽,过于文艺,有些沉闷。
评分探访被遗忘的角落,充满了对历史的深层思考、对个体被时代辗轧的无奈与浓浓的人文关怀,第2章(西雅图某宾馆地下室日裔美国人珍珠港后被关押前存放的私人物品)、第6章(苏联某古拉格城镇与美国某西部小镇的惊人相似)可读性最强,其余章节词藻较华丽,过于文艺,有些沉闷。
评分探访被遗忘的角落,充满了对历史的深层思考、对个体被时代辗轧的无奈与浓浓的人文关怀,第2章(西雅图某宾馆地下室日裔美国人珍珠港后被关押前存放的私人物品)、第6章(苏联某古拉格城镇与美国某西部小镇的惊人相似)可读性最强,其余章节词藻较华丽,过于文艺,有些沉闷。
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Dispatches from Dystopia pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024