{"product_id":"after-life-an-ethnographic-novel-paperback-softback-9780822337881","title":"After Life; An Ethnographic Novel (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822337881","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Ethnographic Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTobias Hecht (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822337881\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 April 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 17 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.2 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e is not only deeply moving, but written with profound integrity. It is saturated with compassion and in this lies its intense moral power.”-Anne Michaels, author of \u003ci\u003eFugitive Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A disturbingly powerful journey into the violence of everyday life and the inner world of literature. The enigmatic and courageous characters of \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e jump off the page and change the ways we think about human agency today.”-JoÃo Biehl, author of \u003ci\u003eVita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e engages a startling mix of ethnography and fiction to illuminate both the world of Recife’s homeless and the peculiar ennui that often befalls the anthropologist during extended fieldwork. . . . Remarkable. . . . \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e urges us to consider, more deeply than we have before, alternative modes of representation.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Robin E. Sheriff (Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology) \u003cdiv\u003e“A call and response of truth and invention, mental illness and yearning, \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a tribute to and reinterpretation of the Latin American testimonio genre. Desire, melancholy, longing, regret, and the hunger to live beyond the confines of past and future meet in this debut novel by Tobias Hecht.”\u003c\/div\u003e (Adolescence)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBruna VerÍssimo, a youth from the hardscrabble streets of Recife, in Northeast Brazil, spoke with Tobias Hecht over the course of many years, reliving her early childhood in a raging and destitute home, her initiation into the world of prostitution at a time when her contemporaries had scarcely started school, and her coming of age against all odds. \u003cp\u003eHecht had originally intended to write a biography of VerÍssimo. But with interviews ultimately spanning a decade, he couldn't ignore that much of what he had been told wasn’t, strictly speaking, true. In VerÍssimo’s recounting of her life, a sister who had never been born died tragically, while the very same rape that shattered the body and mind of an acquaintance occurred a second time, only with a different victim and several years later. At night, with the anthropologist’s tape recorder in hand, she became her own ethnographer, inventing informants, interviewing herself, and answering in distinct voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith truth impossible to disentangle from invention, Hecht followed the lead of VerÍssimo, his would-be informant, creating characters, rendering a tale that didn’t happen but that might have, probing at what it means to translate a life into words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA call and response of truth and invention, mental illness and yearning, \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a tribute to and reinterpretation of the Latin American \u003ci\u003etestimonio\u003c\/i\u003e genre. Desire, melancholy, longing, regret, and the hunger to live beyond the confines of past and future meet in this debut novel by Tobias Hecht.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Notes 12\u003cbr\u003e Part 1 17\u003cbr\u003e Part 2 77\u003cbr\u003e Part 3 121\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 181\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52712029880600,"sku":"9780822337881","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/after-life-an-ethnographic-novel-paperback-softback-9780822337881","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}