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Bezig met laden... The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrectionsdoor Eliane Brum
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"Eliane Brum is a star journalist in Brazil, known for her polyphonic writing that gives voice to people often underrepresented in popular literature. Brum's reporting takes her into Brazil's most marginalized communities: she visits the Amazon to understand the practice of indigenous midwives, stays in São Paulo's favelas to witness the joy of a marriage and the tragedy of young men dying due to drugs and guns, and wades through the mud to capture the boom and bust of modern-day gold rushes. Brum is an enormously sensitive and perceptive interlocutor, and as she visits these places she provides intimate glimpses into both everyday and extraordinary lives: a poor father on the way to bury his son, a street performer who eats glass, a woman living out her final 115 days, and a hoarder rescuing the "leftover souls" of the city. The Collector of Leftover Souls showcases the best of Brum's work from two books, combining short profiles with longer reported pieces. These vibrant missives range across current issues such as the human cost of exploiting natural resources, the Belo Monté Dam's eradication of a way of life for those on the banks of the Xingu River, and the contrast between urban centers and remote villages. Told in the vibrant and idiomatic language of the people Brum writes about, The Collector of Leftover Souls is a vital work of investigative journalism from an internationally acclaimed author." -- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Each piece goes into a small amount of detail about a particular underdog fighting against some aspect of Brazilian culture or government. There are stories about single mothers whose sons have been killed by gang violence, people with dementia living in a nursing home, and indigenous people losing a fight for their land. Each story is between four and ten pages.
I was very curious about the subjects. I wanted more details than Brum provided. While she wrote very poetically and very engagingly, she left out important descriptions and histories in favor of metaphors and good imagery.
Nevertheless, this is the sort of journalism I would like to see more of: human interest stories of people and their lives. ( )