Beschreibung
Details
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
21.05.2024
Abbildungen
Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
388
Maße (L/B/H)
21/14/2,2 cm
Gewicht
481 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-68219-431-7
Told through the lives of the American Century’s most talented and stubborn dissidents, Flights is the archetypal hero’s journey of twenty-one progressives whose struggle for truth, and for freedom from persecution, sent them into exile both literal and metaphorical.
In 1950, poets George and Mary Oppen crossed into the Sonoran Desert, fleeing F.B.I. agents who surveilled their house in the L.A. suburbs. Though George was a war hero and Mary a painter and author, the Oppens would spend most of the 1950s as political refugees in Mexico City, exiled from the United States for their relief work with the Communist Party, hoping to stop evictions during the Great Depression. Before George would add the Pulitzer Prize in poetry to his World War II Purple Heart, they were two of the United States' many refugees from anti-communism.
In 1975, two plainclothes FBI agents sped onto a ranch on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, firing their guns. After one agent was killed, twenty American Indian Movement, or AIM, activists fled into the hills, prompting the largest manhunt in FBI history. Three AIM members were charged for the agents' deaths. One of them, Leonard Peltier, fled to Canada. Arrested in 1977, Peltier was subjected to an unusual justice. Amnesty USA and more than fifty members of Congress called for a new trial, but Peltier was sentenced to life in federal prison, where he languishes today.
What did these refugees feel as they fled their homelands and friends? Wanted for a crime she did not commit, Professor Angela Davis went on the run in 1970, describing the struggle against panic in her nightly safehouse transfers: “Living as a fugitive means resisting hysteria, distinguishing between the creations of a frightened imagination and the real signs that the enemy is near.” In her quest “to elude him, outsmart him,” she recalled, “Thousands of my ancestors had waited, as I had…for nightfall to cover their steps…”
With new profiles of Seymour Hersh, Lorraine Hansberry, Graham Greene, Paul Robeson, Gabriel García Márquez, George & Mary Oppen, Frances Stonor Saunders, Malcolm X, Octavio Paz, Diego Rivera, Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier, N. Scott Momaday, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan guerrilla fighter Everado and his American wife, Jennifer Harbury, Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Menchú, deposed Honduran President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and murdered Lenca environmentalist Berta Cáceres, these artists and activists took imaginative and other flight from American oppressors and their allies, from the Truman through the Trump presidencies.
At once a group portrait of these geniuses of creative escape, Flights is also a prehistory (and indictment) of American mass surveillance culminating in Snowden’s revelations, of torture culminating in Abu Ghraib, of censorship culminating in the incarceration of journalist Julian Assange, of fascism culminating in January 6, and of political murder culminating in the Bush-Obama-Trump air assassination program.
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