Overview
Riverbend, the young Iraqi woman whose ""articulate, even poetic prose packs an emotional punch,"" continues her blog from her hometown of Baghdad (The New York Times). Riverbend, the pseudonymous recipient of a Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Literary Reportage, continues her chronicle of daily life in occupied Baghdad. Drawn from her popular blog, this volume spans from October 2004 through March 2006. In her distinctively wry yet urgent prose Riverbend, now 27, tells of life in a middle-class, secular, mixed Shia-Sunni family. She describes the attacks she sees on TV, raids in her neighborhood, fuel shortages, rolling blackouts, and water shortages, all while offering insightful critiques of the Iraqi draft constitution and American Media. Riverbend reveals how, for the first time in her life, she feels lesser due to her gender. Dispelling reductive, media-driven stereotypes, she explains that most Iraqis are tolerant people, prefer secular to religious government, oppose a civil war, and desperately want the occupation to end.
Full Product Details
Author: Riverbend ,
James Ridgeway ,
Jean Casella
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.283kg
ISBN: 9781558615298
ISBN 10: 1558615296
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 19 October 2006
Audience:
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Reports from 'Ground Zero' in Baghdad by the award-winning and 'Thoughtful writer whose . . . prose packs an emotional punch'. --The New York Times Riverbend's musings will make it impossible for readers to hold on to some cardboard cutout notion of 'an Iraqi'. . . . Bracing, and sure to be controversial, this is a unique and essential record of our times. --Kirkus Reviews [Riverbend's] writing is crisp and lucid, a style one would expect from an educated cosmopolitan woman... and as such it is both personal and political... Riverbend translates the sterile language of policymakers into the flesh and blood reality of fearful citizens... We need to read Riverbend. --National Catholic Reporter -Reports from 'Ground Zero' in Baghdad by the award-winning and 'Thoughtful writer whose . . . prose packs an emotional punch'.- --The New York Times -Riverbend's musings will make it impossible for readers to hold on to some cardboard cutout notion of 'an Iraqi'. . . . Bracing, and sure to be controversial, this is a unique and essential record of our times.- --Kirkus Reviews -[Riverbend's] writing is crisp and lucid, a style one would expect from an educated cosmopolitan woman... and as such it is both personal and political... Riverbend translates the sterile language of policymakers into the flesh and blood reality of fearful citizens... We need to read Riverbend.- --National Catholic Reporter Reports from Ground Zero in Baghdad by the award-winning and Thoughtful writer whose . . . prose packs an emotional punch . The New York Times Riverbend's musings will make it impossible for readers to hold on to some cardboard cutout notion of 'an Iraqi'. . . . Bracing, and sure to be controversial, this is a unique and essential record of our times. Kirkus Reviews [Riverbend's] writing is crisp and lucid, a style one would expect from an educated cosmopolitan woman... and as such it is both personal and political... Riverbend translates the sterile language of policymakers into the flesh and blood reality of fearful citizens... We need to read Riverbend. National Catholic Reporter
Reports from Ground Zero in Baghdad by the award-winning and Thoughtful writer whose . . . prose packs an emotional punch . The New York Times Riverbend's musings will make it impossible for readers to hold on to some cardboard cutout notion of 'an Iraqi'. . . . Bracing, and sure to be controversial, this is a unique and essential record of our times. Kirkus Reviews [Riverbend's] writing is crisp and lucid, a style one would expect from an educated cosmopolitan woman... and as such it is both personal and political... Riverbend translates the sterile language of policymakers into the flesh and blood reality of fearful citizens... We need to read Riverbend. National Catholic Reporter
Author Information
Riverbend is the pseudonym of an Iraqi computer programmer who now lives with her family in Baghdad and whose identity remains concealed for her own protection. Her blog offers searing eyewitness accounts of the everyday realities on the ground, punctuated by astute analysis on the politics behind the events.
