while they sleep (under the bed is another country)

while they sleep (under the bed is another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera Audiobook
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Product Info

Sounded ID: 9781982769604

ISBN: 9781982769604

Publication Date: July 28, 2019

Publisher: Author's Republic

Language: English

Author Name: Raquel Salas Rivera

Narrator Name: Raquel Salas Rivera

Studio Narrated Audiobook 34 mins | POETRY | American | Hispanic & Latino

while they sleep (under the bed is another country)

Publisher
Author's Republic
Narrator
Raquel Salas Rivera

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

while they sleep (under the bed is another country) refuses to sweep up the shards of Hurricane María’s aftermath. Written in dialogic fragments and intersped with prose poems reflecting on the lasting impact of colonial trauma, it is arranged around the two different discourses. The bed on which America sleeps, and which America has made, is built on the fear that the nations it has oppressed will rise up against it, a monstrous shadow in a child’s nightmare. Written in English, while they sleep points to a imperialist American identity: the dormant body of the text. Answering in Spanish, und...

while they sleep (under the bed is another country) refuses to sweep up the shards of Hurricane María’s aftermath. Written in dialogic fragments and intersped with prose poems reflecting on the lasting impact of colonial trauma, it is arranged around the two different discourses. The bed on which America sleeps, and which America has made, is built on the fear that the nations it has oppressed will rise up against it, a monstrous shadow in a child’s nightmare. Written in English, while they sleep points to a imperialist American identity: the dormant body of the text. Answering in Spanish, under the bed is another country is the footnote, the monster under the bed, the colony: Puerto Rico.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. 01intro

0 mins 12 secs

2. 02whiletheysleep

30 mins 28 secs

3. 03dedicationandepilogue

1 mins 35 secs

4. outro

0 mins 12 secs

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