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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: land between two rivers
    sub title: writing in an age of refugees
  title info:
    title: Land between 2 rivers
  title info:
    title: Essays. Selections
  name:
    name part: Sleigh, Tom
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: essay
  genre: Travel writing.
  genre: Essays.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 255 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: "These essays recount Tom Sleigh's experiences working as a journalist during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, "the land between two rivers." Sleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate. But unlike their depiction in mass media, their stories are often laced with an undeluded hopefulness. The second part of this book explores how writing might be capable of honoring the texture of these individuals' experiences while remaining faithful to political emotions, rather than political convictions. The final essays meditate on youth, restlessness, illness, and Sleigh's motivations for writing his own experiences in order to move out into the world."--Back cover.
  table of contents: The deeds -- "A violent prone, poor people zone" -- The land between two rivers -- Tales of the marvelous, news of the strange -- To be incarnational -- How to make a toilet-paper-roll blowgun -- Disappearing act -- "Where's the football?" -- Momma's boy -- A man of care.
  note: Tom Sleigh.
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    geographic code: fe-----
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sleigh, Tom
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sleigh, Tom
    topic: Travel
  subject:
    topic: Refugees
    geographic: Middle East
  subject:
    topic: Refugees
    geographic: Africa, East
  subject:
    topic: Refugees in literature
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: American essays
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American
  classification: PS3569.L36 A6 2018
  classification: 814/.54
  identifier: 1555977960
  identifier: 9781555977962
  identifier: 2017938020
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170524
    record change date: 20180221150041.0
    record identifier: in00003961416
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng