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No country for eight-spot butterflies : a lyric essay / Julian Aguon.

Aguon, Julian, (author.).

Summary:

"No Country for Eight-Spotted 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781662601637
  • ISBN: 1662601638
  • Physical Description: 108 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Astra House, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published as The properties of perpetual light by University of Guam Press, 2021.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
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 -- 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 -- We reach for you -- Reflections while driving -- Nikki and me -- Onion and garlic -- Fighting words -- Yeye tere -- Our father -- Gaosåli -- Curved sticks and cowry shells : a conversation between Julian Aguon & Desiree Taimanglo-Ventura.
Subject:
Aguon, Julian.
Chamorro (Micronesian people) > Guam > Biography.
Civil rights lawyers > Guam > Biography.
Chamorro (Micronesian people) > Guam > Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples > Social conditions.
Social justice.
Environmental justice.
Social Justice
Chamorro (Peuple de Micronésie) > Guam > Conditions sociales.
Justice sociale.
Justice environnementale.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Chamorro (Micronesian people)
Chamorro (Micronesian people) > Social conditions.
Civil rights lawyers.
Environmental justice.
Indigenous peoples > Social conditions.
Social justice.
Guam.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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