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No country for eight-spot butterflies / Julian Aguon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aguon, Julian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guam.
- Aguon, Julian.
- Chamorro (Micronesian people)--Guam--Biography.
- Chamorro (Micronesian people).
- Civil rights lawyers--Guam--Biography.
- Civil rights lawyers.
- Chamorro (Micronesian people)--Guam--Social conditions.
- Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Social justice.
- Environmental justice.
- Chamorro (Micronesian people)--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 112 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- No country for 8 spot butterflies
- Place of Publication:
- London : Jonathan Cape, 2022.
- Summary:
- "No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice -- for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples -- his own and others"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Arundhati Roy
- The properties of perpetual light
- Go with the moon
- No country for eight-spot butterflies
- My mother's bamboo bracelets : a handful of lessons on saving the world
- A handful of lessons on saving the world
- Sherman Alexie looked me dead in the eye once
- More right
- Birthday cakes mean birthdays
- Yugu means yoke
- A crowbar and a conch shell
- The gift Anne gave me
- Nirmal Hriday
- Mugo'
- The ocean within
- We have no need for scientists/59 we reach for you
- Reflections while driving
- Nikki and me
- Onion and garlic
- Fighting words
- Yeye tere
- Our father
- Gaosêali
- Curved sticks and cowry shells : a conversation between Julian Aguon & Desiree Taimanglo-Ventura.
- Gaos̊ali
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-108).
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1787334139
- 9781787334137
- 1787334120
- 9781787334120
- OCLC:
- 1288662379
- Publisher Number:
- 99994080883
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