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Text Messages: or How I Found Myself Time Traveling - Softcover

Al Salman, Yassin

 
9781642591507: Text Messages: or How I Found Myself Time Traveling
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1642591505 ISBN 13: 9781642591507
Verlag: Haymarket Books, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman. Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy 's writing speaks of the existential crises experienced by diasporic children of war before and during imperialism in the age of the Internet.

Narcy 's verses span the space between hip-hop and manifesto, portraying a crumbling, end-stage capitalist society, visions for a new reality, and exposes the myth of multiculturalism in post-9/11 North America. The wordsmith hollows and transmogrifies the grotesque excess of the West by juxtaposing McLife with images of death, destruction, and trauma in the East.

From the depths of apathetic consumerism arises a voice of spiritual self-realization that explodes the misrepresented, mythical monolith of Islam in the West and with the rubble builds healing through intelligent resistance and radical love.

"Young boys and girls trapped in Walmarts-- our consumer interim camps. A family-friendly, discounted freedom. You don 't see what the Internet can 't. Not our land or home. Not your mans or holmes. Not your towers or domes. Not your power or drones."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Yassin 'Narcy' Al Salman, formerly known as the Narcicyst, is a musician, actor, professor and multi-media artist based out of Montreal, Canada. He was a pioneer of the Arab Hip-Hop movement through his Iraqi trio Euphrates in the early 2000s. He is a founding member of the international multi-media arts collective WeAreTheMedium, and currently teaches one of Canada's only Hip-Hop courses at Concordia University in Montreal, where he blends performance with education, media with literacy and creativity with cultural heritage. 

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Verlag
Haymarket Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1642591505
ISBN 13 
9781642591507
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
150
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