by Portia KapraunLibrary JournalJanuary 2016 Crippled Nacho Morales leads a group of misfits and outcasts in taking over an abandoned…
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Damnificados: A Foreword Review
by Pallas Gates McCorquodale Foreword ReviewsFebruary 29th, 2016 Drawing inspiration from the true story of a skyscraper turned safe haven,…
The Hero Uses Crutches: JJ Amaworo Wilson’s Damnificados
By Kate MacDonaldMarch 24th, 2106 The carefully managed outbreaks of magical realism are what I like best about J J…
Damnificados in World Literature Today
By Yang JingWorld Literature Today It is said that historians provide accuracy while artists provide truth, which can be best…
Damnificados: A Magical Realist Manifesto for the Poor
by Dave SewellSocialist Worker Debut novelist JJ Amaworo Wilson’s magical realist fable celebrates the ingenuity, tenacity and resistance of slum-dwellers.…
Damnificados in Le Monde
by Gladys MarivatLe MondeJanuary 2019 “Extraordinary … Damnificados disorients the reader by invoking biblical, mythological, epic and real-life tales in…
Shakespeare in the Age of the Tyrant
By JJ Amaworo Wilson Stephen Greenblatt’s new book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power, is a timely tome. As Greenblatt well knows,…
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o: “The Scars of History Are on Every Writer”
By JJ Amaworo Wilson The great Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is known for at least four things: writing a…
The Other 9/11: Chile in the Time of Pinochet
By JJ Amaworo Wilson A few days ago, my 10-year-old son asked me why I’d scheduled an event on 9/11.…
The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Wilson
By JJ Amaworo Wilson How about this for a hybrid: take an 80-something professor, sit him down for a conversation,…