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'This essay turns to the paratexts of No Friend but the Mountains, and the question of how this book should be read in these margins of the text. Focusing on both peritexts and epitexts—Richard Flanagan’s “Foreword,” Omid Tofighian’s “Translator’s Tale” and “Reflections,” and a review of the novel by J. M. Coetzee, “Australia’s Shame”—it examines the ethical challenge to Australian readers at this threshold of interpretation, and asks what responses we might make as beneficiaries and implicated subjects, and as Southern readers.' (Publication abstract)
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Epigraph: Reading this book is difficult for any Australian. - Richard Flanagan, “Foreword”
The border-industrial complex is insidious and pervasive such that all citizens become complicit in different ways. - Omid Tofighian, “Translator’s Reflections”
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- No Friend but the Mountains : Writing From Manus Prison Omid Tofighian (translator), 2018 selected work prose
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