The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War
Taking several ageless questions--Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?--as his point of departure, award-winning author Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of terror, modernity, tradition, and epochal transformation. In three extended essays, Merrill observes the performance of a banned ritual in the Malaysian province of Kelatan; traces Saint-John Perse's epic voyage from Beijing to Ulan Bator in 1921, and relates it to the China of today; and embarks on a trip across the Levant in 2007 in the wake of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Merrill asserts that it is in this trinity of human actions--ce…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57131-305-8
- EAN: 9781571313058
- Produktnummer: 11181499
- Verlag: Milkweed Ed
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 305 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.8 cm 635 g
- Gewicht: 635
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