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Manifesto for Another World: Voices from Beyond the Dark (Open Media)
Ariel Dorfman

Seven Stories Press, 2003

In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty hard-core human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzn, ...
  
  











  



  
La muerte y la doncella: Death and the Maiden, Spanish Edition
Ariel Dorfman

Siete Cuentos Editorial, 2001

Ariel Dorfman?s award-winning play is set in a fictional South American country that has recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head a commission that will investigate crimes of the old regime. His wife, who was tortured in a military detention center years before, has her own plans for vindication.
  
  











  



  
Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak

University Of Iowa Press, 2007

Guantanamo Poems open eyes
Poems from Guantanamo should be required reading in high schools. Students need to read the effects of this administrations policy on human lives. When the history books are written, this country will have to apologize for creating a concentration camp with ...
  
  











  



  
Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Augusto Pinochet
Ariel Dorfman

Open Media, 2003

Essential reading
This is essential reading for anyone wanting to comprehend the crimes of Pinochet and the complicity of the United States government. As is always the case with Dorfman's books, it is beautifully written.
  
  











  



  
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
Ariel Dorfman, Armand Mattelart

International General, 1984

Down with Disney!
It just goes to show that even with the economy on a downturn the CEO of Disney walks away with 75 million dollars and gives the employees the dregs of the disney economy. This book is worth buying for it details the enormity of Diney's propaganda campaign to portray ...
  
  











  



  
Preso sin Nombre, Celda sin Numero (THE AMERICAS)
Jacobo Timerman

University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

A classic of world literature back in print in a Spanish-language edition. Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.
  
  











  



  
Rumbo Al Sur, Deseando El Norte: UN Romance Bilingue
Ariel Dorfman

Editorial Planeta, S.A. (Barcelona), 1999
  
  











  



  
Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
Ariel Dorfman

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999

A master story-teller's own story of multiple exiles
Both as a memorial to the democracy that was delayed for a generation in Chile (and to his friends who were casualties in the Pinochet terror) and as an account of how a major writer became the bilingual hybrid he is by rejecting first one and then the other of his ...
  
  











  



  
Susan Meiselas: In History
Caroline Brothers, Edmundo Desnoes, ...

Steidl/ICP, 2008

Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and participated in these debates than Susan Meiselas. An American photographer best known for her work covering the political upheavals in Central America in the ...
  
  











  



  
Death and the Maiden: Tie-In Edition (Plays, Penguin)
Ariel Dorfman

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1994

This is a masterpiece
Having studied and befriended Professor Dorfman while studying under him at Duke University, I came to know his tale, Death and the Maiden, very intimately. It is a universal story that will likely serve as his masterwork, and as a result, will serve as one of the ...
  
  











  



  
Mascara
Ariel Dorfman

Seven Stories Press, 2004

"A tantalizingly ambiguous web of deceit, intrigue, and obsession, its layers of meaning gradually revealed. . . . The reader is left in delicious puzzlement."- Publishers Weekly Mascara , Ariel Dorfman's haunting English-language debut novel, delves into the dark terrain of identity and disguise when the lives of three people collide. A ...
  
  











  



  
Para leer al pato Donald. Comunicacion de masa y colonialismo
Ariel Dorfman

Siglo XXI, 2001

En este mundo nada escapa a la ideologia. Nada escapa, por lo tanto, a la lucha de clases. Este libro intenta develar los mecanismos especificos por los que la ideologia burguesa se reproduce a traves de los personajes de Walt Disney; indagar, asimismo, en la estructura de las historietas para mostrar el universo de connotaciones que desencadena y ...
  
  











  



  
Chile: The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup (Radical History)
Ariel Dorfman

Ocean Press, 2006

A Powerful Document.
"Chile: The Other September 11" is one of the best books available on the tragic events that inaugurated an era of terror and fascism in the small Latin American country. This is an astounding document of what took place when radical right-wing general Augusto Pinochet ...
  
  











  



  
My House Is on Fire
Ariel Dorfman

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991

It was about, talked about military stuff.
I think the book was boring. I didn't like it one bit. All it talked about was military stuff. I don't like that. But it has some interesting stuff of what goes on under military servicing.
  
  











  



  
The Nanny and the Iceberg
Ariel Dorfman

Seven Stories Press, 2003

Playful
A playful novel and exceptionally well written. It has been a difficult transition for many of the 'political' writers of the 1970s to write in a contemporary, "less immediate" Latin America...Dorfman, with this novel, manages the transition well. The novel has been ...
  
  











  



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