Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Autore di Iep jāltok : poems from a Marshallese daughter
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Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a Marshallese writer. She is co-founder of the nonprofit organization Jo-Jikum, which empowers youth to work toward solutions on environmental issues threatening their home islands.
Opere di Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Jetnil-Kijiner, Kathy
- Sesso
- female
- Luogo di nascita
- Marshall Islands
- Luogo di residenza
- Marshall Islands
Hawai'i, USA
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 35
- Popolarità
- #405,584
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 3
Jetn̄il-Kijiner is frank about the very real dangers that her nation faces from climate change (the Marshall Islands are, on average, no more than 2 metres above sea level), and the ongoing health impacts from the U.S. military's mid-twentieth-century use of their country and its people as guinea pigs for nuclear testing (miscarriages bring forth "jelly babies/tiny beings with no bones/skin—red as tomatoes"; the young and the old die painful deaths from cancer). Yet at the same time she also celebrates Marshallese culture, and shows us the rich texture of life that the whole world would lose if the Marshallese lose their islands.
Not all of the poems work as well for me as did others—a defter touch would sometimes have served Jetn̄il-Kijiner better—but there's no doubting the passion which imbues all of them. Recommended.… (altro)