Dreamland : the way out of Juárez /
"What do you call a place where people are tortured and murdered and buried in the backyard of a nice, middle-class condo? Where police work for the drug cartels? Where the meanings of words such as "border" and "crime" and "justice" are emptying out into the stree...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "What do you call a place where people are tortured and murdered and buried in the backyard of a nice, middle-class condo? Where police work for the drug cartels? Where the meanings of words such as "border" and "crime" and "justice" are emptying out into the streets and flowing down into the sewers? You call it Juárez or, better yet, Dreamland. Realizing that merely reporting the facts cannot capture the massive disintegration of society that is happening along the border, Charles Bowden and Alice Leora Briggs use nonfiction and sgraffito drawings to depict the surreality that is Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. With the feel of a graphic novel, the look of an illuminated medieval manuscript, and the harshness of a police blotter, Dreamland captures the routine brutality, resilient courage, and rapacious daily commerce along the U.S.-Mexico border."--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 165 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 164). |
| ISBN: | 9780292721234 0292721234 9780292722071 0292722079 |