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7469580north by north/westhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/north-by-north-west-9781959000440/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7069921/image.jpg?v=638809134094400000320445MXNWest Virginia University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>north by north/west is a hybrid work of creative nonfiction assembled as several iterative sequencesa discontinuous itineraryof exile. Harnessing both montage and collage to represent the incohesive experience of being between cultures, categories, and language, this book is a personal, critical, and autoethnographic exploration of diasporic identity formation and creative expression amidst the cultural and political impacts of Cold War colonialism and fragmentation. As the narrator begins work on a rough translation of the 1959 film North by Northwest, focal points surface through textual correspondences with distant coordinates, shifting between close readings of Whitney Houstons early music videos, current events reportage, illness journals, eighties spy movies, the most recent solar eclipse, Alfred Hitchcocks unproduced films, Cold War stay-behind operations, an ill-fated party at the Festival de Cannes, and family accounts of migration. These meticulously arranged narrative threadsharnessing elements of a novel alongside poetry, photographs, and field notesattempt to discompose the epistemology of the West/Global North in order to conceptualize a genre of work by the children of exiles who have been called the post-dictatorship generation.</p>...7094517north by north/west320445https://www.gandhi.com.mx/north-by-north-west-9781959000440/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7069921/image.jpg?v=638809134094400000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259781959000440_W3siaWQiOiIxOTIwYzY0ZS02MmM4LTQxZjUtOTBjMC1kZDhjNmE4OGJhODkiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ3MiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjEzMiwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjozNDAsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI1LTA2LTAxVDE3OjAwOjAwWiIsInRvIjoiMjAyNS0wNi0zMFQyMzo1OTo1OVoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlfSx7ImlkIjoiZDYwMjZkOTMtOTM4NS00OGMzLThlZWItZTY3ZjAxYjExNzQxIiwibGlzdFByaWNlIjo0NDUsImRpc2NvdW50IjoxMjUsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6MzIwLCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNS0wNy0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlfV0=9781959000440_<p>north by north/west is a hybrid work of creative nonfiction assembled as several iterative sequencesa discontinuous itineraryof exile. Harnessing both montage and collage to represent the incohesive experience of being between cultures, categories, and language, this book is a personal, critical, and autoethnographic exploration of diasporic identity formation and creative expression amidst the cultural and political impacts of Cold War colonialism and fragmentation. As the narrator begins work on a rough translation of the 1959 film North by Northwest, focal points surface through textual correspondences with distant coordinates, shifting between close readings of Whitney Houstons early music videos, current events reportage, illness journals, eighties spy movies, the most recent solar eclipse, Alfred Hitchcocks unproduced films, Cold War stay-behind operations, an ill-fated party at the Festival de Cannes, and family accounts of migration. These meticulously arranged narrative threadsharnessing elements of a novel alongside poetry, photographs, and field notesattempt to discompose the epistemology of the West/Global North in order to conceptualize a genre of work by the children of exiles who have been called the post-dictatorship generation.</p>...9781959000440_West Virginia University Presslibro_electonico_9781959000440_9781959000440Chris CampanioniInglésMéxico2025-05-01T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-7dc4fc5e-c24d-4658-ad04-ff7ec13365fc.epub2025-05-01T00:00:00+00:00West Virginia University Press