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E-book The Motorcycle Diaries : Youth, Travel and Politics in Latin America

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he travel buddies nevertheless make it to Chile, where they need to resort to some tricks to cope with financial problems. They pose as famous ‘leper experts’ for a local newspaper, winning the esteem (and help) of the locals, and they develop an ‘anniversary routine’ to convince others to pay them a free lunch on the occasion of their supposed one-year anniversary of touring. They also experience lesser amusing things: a visit to the house of an old, dying lady deeply affects Fuser, who a few days earlier already had had to deal with a break-up letter from Chichina. As a reaction to the latter, perhaps, he accepts the advances of a Chilean woman during a dance party, but her husband catches them and Mial and Fuser need to hurry their way out. Shortly after, their motorcycle breaks down and the rest of the journey is accomplished on foot and by hitchhiking.In the Atacama Desert, they meet a communist couple on their way to an American-owned Chilean copper mine and witness the miserable way in which these workers are treated by the supervisors. In Peru, they visit Machu Picchu and Cuzco, meet indigenous inhabitants and in Lima enjoy the hospitality of Dr. Pesce, Peru’s leading leprologist at the time. He rec-ommends that they visit San Pablo, a leper community in the Amazon. After Fuser has a serious asthma attack on the boat, they arrive safely at the com-munity and take part in the activities (medical and otherwise).At the end of their stay, a birthday party is organised for Fuser by the medical staff and nuns during which he gives a speech on the unity of Latin America. Immediately after, he undertakes a dangerous swim to the other shore of the Amazon River, to join the leper patients and include them, symbolically at least, in the celebration. The day after, Mial and Fuser head for Venezuela on a raft – Fuser’s birthday present from the San Pablo community. They part in Caracas, where Mial has been offered a job as biochemist, and Fuser takes a return plane to Buenos Aires, with a stopover in Miami. A last shot transports us back to the time of the shoot-ing and to Cuba, where the aged face of the real Mial (Alberto Granado) reminds the viewer of the historical dimension of the film. We learn that Alberto moved to Cuba on the invitation of his friend Fuser, who by then had become ‘commander Guevara’. The closing sentences of the film mention that Guevara, after his involvement in the Cuban Revolution, went on fighting for his ideals in Congo and Bolivia, where he was killed by the military in 1967.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

778.53 LIE t

Penerbit

New York : Taylor & Francis., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

123 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781003225409

Klasifikasi

778.53

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Cinematography

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