On a Move: The Story of Mumia Abu Jamal - Softcover

Bisson, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874869013 ISBN 13: 9780874869019

Verlag: Plough Publishing House, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Looks at the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was implicated in the slaying of a police officer in Philadelphia in 1981.

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Terry Bisson is the author of numerous science fiction novels, short stories, motion picture novelizations, and a biography of Nat Turner for young adults. A winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, as well as France's Gran Prix de l'Imaginaire, Bisson has written for The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation. Recent nonfiction projects include Hauling up the Morning (an anthology of writing by political prisoners), and Sleeping Where I Fall (the memoirs of activist film star Peter Coyote), both of which he edited.

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In this first biography of Mumia, award-winning author Terry Bisson brings to life the world's most famous prisoner since Nelson Mandela. To some, Mumia is a dangerous ex-Panther whose revolutionary ideas must be silenced and suppressed. To others, he is a daring journalist whose tireless efforts to expose injustice and fight censorship have made him a "voice of the voiceless." Who is Mumia?

Meet the man behind the headlines, and decide for yourself.

Why write about Mumia? "These brief impressionistic sketches were designed to give the contours and flavor of a life that Mumia insists is not exceptional at all, but representative of the lives of many of the youth of his generation, and particularly black youth, who were informed and set into motion by the welcome upheavals of history. It's a good story and one he's rightfully proud of. I'm pleased to have been given a stab at telling it." (from the Afterword)

Why not an autobiography? "It's generally either hubris or foolishness when one writer writes another writer's life. My only excuse is that I was asked. Mumia is too busy writing about others to bother with himself." (from the Afterword)

But why a science fiction writer? "The job of a sci-fi writer is to make strange worlds familiar, and what could be stranger today than the sixties, when white supremacy and corporate hegemony seemed not only threatened but actually on the run in Vietnam, Latin America, Africa? How could I describe to today's youth what it felt like to know that the Revolution was just around the corner? That the world was changing every day for the better? 'If you can do Mars, you can do the sixties,' Mumia told me with a hopeful, slightly wistful, homesick grin." (from the Afterword)

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Plough Publishing House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0874869013
• ISBN 13: 9780874869019
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 215
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