Dispatches from dystopia : histories of places not yet forgotten

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Dispatches from dystopia : histories of places not yet forgotten

Title remainder

histories of places not yet forgotten

Statement of responsibility

Kate Brown

Creator

• Brown, Kate, (Kathryn L)

Subject

• Disasters
• Hazardous geographic environments
• Historiography
• Travel

Language

eng

Summary

The author "wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version -- the real or the virtual -- is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration of Hasidic Jews. In the Russian southern Urals, she speaks with the citizens of the small city of Kyshtym, where invisible radioactive pollutants have mysteriously blighted lives. Finally, Brown returns home to Elgin, Illinois, in the industrial rust belt, to investigate the rise of "rustalgia" and the ways her formative experiences have inspired her obsession with modernist wastelands."--

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography