Dance for Me When I Die.
Author | Cruz, Joshua Kohler Da |
Alarcon, Cristian. Dance for Me When I Die. Translated by Nick Caistor and Marcela Lopez Levy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
Dance for Me When I Die is a masterpiece in urban anthropology, ethnography, and sociology. Cristian Alarcon provides a deep dive into the Argentinian favela of San Fernando and one of its inhabitants: Victor "Frente" Manuel Vital. The tragic death of San Fernando's most famous and beloved thief takes place on the first page of the book followed by quick-paced conversations of members of the community finding out that Frente had been murdered. As one reads the introductory pages, the reader is sucked into the emotional scene of Frentes mother coming to terms with the extrajudicial execution of her son in a dirty shack while his friend retells the story of horror. It is through these moments where Alarcon's skill as a talented journalist and professor at the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation for New Latin American Journalism shines. The whole work is filled with these grabbing moments retold through interviews with locals who lived through...
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