Elaine Mokhtefi

Broschiertes Buch

Algiers, Third World Capital

Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers

Mitarbeit: Harding, Jeremy

Beschreibung

Mokhtefi (née Klein), a Jewish American from Long Island, has had an exhilarating life. In the 1960s, she served as a press adviser to the National Liberation Front in postwar Algiers, before going to work with Eldridge Cleaver, who was wanted in the US for his role in a deadly shoot-out with Oakland police. Half a century later, as an eighty-nine-year-old painter living on the Upper West Side, Mokhtefi still seasons her prose with the argot of revolution.

Autor

Elaine Mokhtefi was born in New York. After the Second World War, she joined the youth movement for world peace and justice, becoming director of a militant student organization. In 1951 she settled in France as a translator and interpreter for international organizations in the new postwar world. In 1960, she joined a small team in New York as part of the Algerian National Liberation Front, lobbying the United Nations in support of the government in exile and working for Algerian independence. When the struggle was won, she made Algeria her home, working as a journalist and translator. She married the Algerian writer and liberation war veteran Mokhtar Mokhtefi, who died in 2015. A painter as well as a writer, she lives in New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso / Verso US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6377
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9781788730037
• ISBN-10: 1788730038
• Artikelnr.: 54843965

Rezensionen

Provides an ideal occasion to reconsider the politics of 'Third Worldist' internationalism linking Black Power, European radicals, and anti-colonial militants during (the late sixties) Eugene Brennan Los Angeles Review of Books