The American Way
(2021)Stories of Invasion
(The third book in the History-into-Fiction series)
An anthology of stories edited by Orsola Casagrande and Ra Page
After four years of Trump, America seems set to return to political normality. But for much of the rest of the world, that normality is a horror story: 75 years of US-led invasions, CIA-sponsored coups, election interference, stay-behind networks, rendition, and weapons testing... all in the name of Pax America, the world’s police. If you are not an ally of the US, in this ‘normality’, your country can find its democratic processes undermined and its economic wellbeing conditioned upon returning to the fold. If you’re not strategically important to the US, you can find yourself its dumping ground.
This new anthology re-examines this history with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil, by writers from that soil. From nuclear testing in the Pacific, to human testing of CIA torture tactics, from coups in Latin America, to all-out invasions in the Middle and Far East; the atrocities that follow are often dismissed in history books as inevitable in the ‘fog of war’.
By presenting them from indigenous, grassroots perspectives, accompanied by afterwords by the historians that consulted on them, this book attempts to bring some clarity back to that history.
Stories by: Talal Abu Shawish, Gabriel Ángel, Gioconda Belli, Gianfranco Bettin, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Hassan Blasim, Paige Cooper, Ahmel Echevarría Peré, Ahmet Haluk Ünal, Hüseyin Karabey, Wilfredo Mármol Amaya, Lina Meruane, Lidudumalingani Mqombothi, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Payam Nasser, Fariba Nawa, Jacob Ross, Bina Shah, Kim Thúy & Carol Zardetto
Afterwords by: Olmo Golz, Emmanuel Gerard, Felix Julio Alfonso Lopez, David Harper, Ertugrul Kurkcu, Francisco Dominguez, Maurizio Dianese, Julio Barrios Zardetto, Brian Meeks, Victor Figueroa Clark, Raymond Bonner, Daniel Kovalik, Meral Cicek, Ian Shaw, Matteo Capasso, Neil Faulkner, Xuan Phuong, Iyad S. S. Abujaber & Chris Hedges.
Translated by: Orsola Casagrande, Mustafa Gundogdu, Sawad Hussain, Jonathan Wright, Basma Ghalayini, Nicholas Glastonbury, Sara Khalili, J. Bret Maney, Adam Feinstein, and Megan McDowell.
Part of our History-into-Fiction series.
Genre: Historical
This new anthology re-examines this history with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil, by writers from that soil. From nuclear testing in the Pacific, to human testing of CIA torture tactics, from coups in Latin America, to all-out invasions in the Middle and Far East; the atrocities that follow are often dismissed in history books as inevitable in the ‘fog of war’.
By presenting them from indigenous, grassroots perspectives, accompanied by afterwords by the historians that consulted on them, this book attempts to bring some clarity back to that history.
Stories by: Talal Abu Shawish, Gabriel Ángel, Gioconda Belli, Gianfranco Bettin, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Hassan Blasim, Paige Cooper, Ahmel Echevarría Peré, Ahmet Haluk Ünal, Hüseyin Karabey, Wilfredo Mármol Amaya, Lina Meruane, Lidudumalingani Mqombothi, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Payam Nasser, Fariba Nawa, Jacob Ross, Bina Shah, Kim Thúy & Carol Zardetto
Afterwords by: Olmo Golz, Emmanuel Gerard, Felix Julio Alfonso Lopez, David Harper, Ertugrul Kurkcu, Francisco Dominguez, Maurizio Dianese, Julio Barrios Zardetto, Brian Meeks, Victor Figueroa Clark, Raymond Bonner, Daniel Kovalik, Meral Cicek, Ian Shaw, Matteo Capasso, Neil Faulkner, Xuan Phuong, Iyad S. S. Abujaber & Chris Hedges.
Translated by: Orsola Casagrande, Mustafa Gundogdu, Sawad Hussain, Jonathan Wright, Basma Ghalayini, Nicholas Glastonbury, Sara Khalili, J. Bret Maney, Adam Feinstein, and Megan McDowell.
Part of our History-into-Fiction series.
Genre: Historical
Used availability for Ra Page's The American Way