... The postscript describes two trips that the author and Bruno made together. The first was to the ruins of the Vila de Dois Rios prison on Ilha Grande, the second to the town of Corumbá, on the border between Brazil and Bolivia. Ilha Grande Corumbá border ...

... A travel-account about a trip to Kashmir begins with a visit to a psychiatric hospital in the capital city Srinagar and ends with a stop at a hotel where V. S. Naipaul had written a book in 1962. This chapter includes a coda: a fax sent by Naipaul to the author after reading the original piece...

... In this chapter, the author writes of the several research trips undertaken to India. This essay is partly a report on fieldwork, and partly a travel guide. The places mentioned include Delhi and its travel attractions, and then the less likely destinations, stone quarries in Punjab, a small...

... The book closes by summarizing how a handful of black activists and thinkers evaluated President Richard Nixon’s now infamous 1972 trip to China and China’s evolving engagement of Africa during this decade. The chapter argues that to the extent that Nixon’s visit signified the prospect...

... This chapter begins with the author’s reflections on the morning after his rescue from a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean. It tells the story of a trip to the South Pacific to meet with Micronesians who had been displaced from the Bikini Atoll because of nuclear testing in the 1940s and 1950s...

... at least as much collective expressions that work to entertain and uplift the girls as they are declarations of self-definition meant to respond to mandated social scripts for Black girlhood. A week-long camping trip in Ohio and the oral history surrounding a protest staged by the residents in the early...

... of the symptoms as rabies and the means of transmission as vampire bats; the team's trip to the national capital to take a report to national health authorities and the press. The introduction lays out the book's experimental narrative strategy and analytical interventions into illness and narrative, knowledge...

... transgression of those values are explored. As the author takes the reader on a 2014 trip to Haydée’s birthplace and childhood home, the protagonist’s early life and young adulthood are revealed. rural Cuba Spanish immigration Orthodox Party sibling love social norms ...

... festival fever in India and the questions that writers get asked by the audience. Jaipur litfest literary culture festival fever A travel-account about a trip to Kashmir begins with a visit to a psychiatric hospital in the capital city Srinagar and ends with a stop at a hotel where V. S...

... nongovernmental organizations in eighty countries with Joseph serving as cochair, leading delegations to the former Soviet Union as Soviet citizens influenced by glasnost and perestroika sought support to develop a civil society, and trips to Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America to help invigorate other civil...

... during repeated trips to Rome between 1999 and 2012, WalkingStick drew classical fauns, Christ’s transfiguration, and Aztec codices from Italian collections into sensuous, loving proximity. She then invited figures repurposed from her sketchbooks to dance across the scuffed surfaces of works on paper...