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Dance for Me When I Die: Latin America in Translation

Autor Cristian Alarcón, Nick Caistor, Marcela López Levy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 apr 2019
On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old V ctor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout Buenos Aires's shantytowns for his success as a thief, commitment to a code of honor, and generosity to his community, Frente became a Robin Hood--style legend who, in death, was believed to have the power to make bullets swerve and save gang members from shrapnel. In Dance for Me When I Die-first published in Argentina in 2004 and appearing here in English for the first time-Cristian Alarc n tells the story and legacy of Frente's life and death in the context of the everyday experiences of love and survival, murder and addiction, and crime and courage of those living in the slums. Drawing on interviews with Frente's friends, family, and ex-girlfriends, as well as with local thieves and drug dealers, and having immersed himself in Frente's neighborhood for eighteen months, Alarc n captures the world of the urban poor in all of its complexity and humanity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478003786
ISBN-10: 1478003782
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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Cuprins

Foreword / Javier Auyero and Gabriela Polit-Dueñas xi
Acknowledgments xv
Prologue 1
Chapter 1 5
Chapter 2 21
Chapter 3 37
Chapter 4 45
Chapter 5 55
Chapter 6 73
Chapter 7 85
Chapter 8 101
Chapter 9 115
Epilogue 127

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Descriere

In Dance for Me When I Die-first published in Argentina in 2004 and appearing here in English for the first time-Cristian Alarcon tells the story and legacy of seventeen year old Victor Manuel Vital, aka Frente, who was killed by police in the slums of Buenos Aires.