Other Septembers, Many Americas
Selected Provocations, 1980-2004

Critical account of US intervention in Latin America by world-renowned author and playwright.

This collection forms a rich historical and social text essential for anyone who wishes to understand how the roots of our present crisis are embedded deep within the American psyche, documented by a writer who exists uniquely both inside and out of it.

By Way of Introduction / Part One: I Have Been Through This Before In Which the Author Explores Some Reactions to the September 11th attacks / 1. The Last September 11th / 2. Globalizing Compassion: Photography and the Challenge of Terror / 3. Love Letter to America / 4. Cold Waters / 5. Pablo Picasso has Some Words for Colin Powell from the Other Side of Death / 6. Letter to an Unknown Iraqi Dissident / 7. A Different Drum / Part Two: Yesterday Is Still Here / In Which the Author Explores Why the People of the United States Need to Face Their Past... / 1. Hymn For the Unsung / 2. The 19 and the 84 / 3. The Face, the Voice, the Eyes of the enemy / 4. Get Rich, Young Man / 5. Norteamericanos, Call Home / 6. Down Mexico Way... Before the Subcomandante came along... / 7. Finding the Fever / 8. Miss Margarida's Way / 9. Dreams of a Bilingual Nation / 10. Questions for Humanity / Part Three: Troubled Bridges / In Which the Author Explores the Continuing Enigma of Latin America / 1. Who Are the Real Barbarians: Memory and the Fate of Latin America / 2. Will the Duendes Prowl in Santiago? 3. The Day I Failed to be Che Guevara / 4. Rubber Soul / 5. A Hopeful Parable of Doom / 6. Here come the Duendes again. / 7. The Clowns Come to the Revolution / 8. The Return of Che / 9. Wandering on the Boundaries of Development: The Last Journey of the Matacos / 10. The True Miracle of Elian / 11. The Latin American Aesthetics of Hope / Part Four: Imagining A Way Out In Which the Author Explores Why Questions Are Better than Answers / 1. The Wandering Bigamists of Language / 2. Moving Away from the Known / 3. Final and First Words to Death and the Maiden / 4. Message from a King of Troy / 5. And They Lived Heartlessly Ever After / 6. Surviving the Century: filming with Roman Polanski / 7. Conjuros: The Bull in the Labyrinth of Chile and Spain / 8. Confessions from Another South, Other Wars / 9. Writing Voices From Beyond the Dark / 10. Love Letter to Sarajevo - a poem / 11. Writing the Deep South / 12. The Hidden Censors / 13. The Children Are Watching/ 14. Letter to the Sixth Billionth World Citizen Conclusion As Manifesto: Imagining a Possible Peace