Demanding The Impossible
About Resistance
$54.99
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2012
Summary
Demanding the Impossible asks what has become of the ideal and myth of resistance. It searches for the power of ‘no’ and ‘enough’.Combining elements of fiction, history, reportage and analysis, Sylvia Lawson examines the way the spirit of wartime resistance resurfaced in Paris in the insurrection of May 1968, when a rare unity of intellectuals and industrial workers woke a complacent society.She chronicles moments of resistance- the story of intrepid Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522854855 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522854850 |
| Author: | Sylvia Lawson |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 157mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Sylvia Lawson
Sylvia Lawson is one of Australia’s most acute and eloquent cultural and political essayists. Her work includes the prizewinning collection How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia, The Archibald Paradox- A Strange Case of Authorship and the novel The Outside Story, which is centred on the Sydney Opera House. She is currently film critic for the online and print journal Inside Story.
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