Name: Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
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Author: Eduardo Galeano
ISBN: 9780312420314

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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World

Type

Physical Book

Author

Eduardo Galeano

Translated by

Mark Fried

Publisher

Picador

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x13.7x2.8 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0312420315

ISBN13

9780312420314

Edition No.

Synopsis "Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World "

In a series of mock lesson plans and a program of study Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in The Impunity of Power to a seminar on The Sacred Car--with tips along the way on How to Resist Useless Vices and a declaration of the The Right to Rave--he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a reality we should reject, he writes, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark. In the North, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by things we own; the South is the galley slave enabling our greed.

Eduardo Galeano

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Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was a Uruguayan writer and journalist whose work was characterized by a deep social and political commitment. His style combined essays, chronicles, and narrative to address the history and struggles of Latin America. His most influential work, Open Veins of Latin America (1971), became a benchmark of critical thinking about colonialism and exploitation in the region.

Throughout his career, Galeano published key titles such as Memory of Fire (1982-1986), a trilogy that reinterprets the history of the continent, and The Book of Embraces (1989), a collection of short stories with his characteristic poetic style. His legacy continues as an essential voice in Latin American literature.

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