It is heartbreaking to read the Johan Hilton’s , carefully frampenslade out and about on the Orlandomassakern in 2016, not only on account of the burning of the material. The shooting, in which 49 people were killed when a single shooter and a HOLD-the fighters of sudan, Omar Mateen, a juninatt opened fire inside the gayklubben the most, was the was the deadliest in united states history. Since then surpassed by the attack in Las Vegas by 2017, it is only another in a long list of all of the masskjutningar that plagued the society.
To read the ”We’re walt disney world” at this very moment, also gives a certain kind of svindelkänslor, the difference between the members of the response to the collective trauma of the past can, indeed, be avgrundslik. On the one hand, Obama in the spirit of solidarity, avklarnade or required statements, in the press conference just after the bombing of the Area, and on the other by the Trump in response to the massive protests that are currently taking place.
the Bold contrast is also something that is characteristic of the story. In spite of the violence and the tension as the book denotes, it is a redeeming story of how the Pulseskjutningen was transformed into a ”spiritual trial, where a whole community showed its best side, in the middle of a pitch-black darkness.
they were in the language itself grundpremiss.
the Hilton is starting to take up the city’s skyline, as is the language itself grundpremiss. The era of the entertainment industry, and Disney World, Gay Days is celebrated annually, but the anti-gay signs were put up as recently as the nineties, described by Orlando as a free bubble of the conservative Florida. Along with materials, from police reports, trial transcripts, transcribed times, etc, based Hilton, the story of the hundreds and hundreds of interviews carried out in 2018 and 2019.
The survivors, families, activists, local politicians, health care professionals, volunteers, imams, and gaypräster. The interviews will be conducted in English or in Spanish, with an interpreter, because most of the victims, on the grounds that it is the night of the shooting, was a Latin Night, at the most, not only belonged to the Orlando queercommunity the big latinobefolkning – all but a minor aspect in this context.
in the Orlando area by 2016.Photo by: PHELAN M. EBENHACK / AP, TT NEWS agency
the Approach of letting the story take shape in and through this ”forest of voices”, which is a Hilton type place with the colourful tradition of the mångstämmiga of literary reportage as a set of collective phenomena and events under the microscope. A related book will be, for me, is a mexican author Elena Poniatowskas is the classic statement of Tlatelolcomassakern of the population in Mexico City in 1968, in a story that, like the Hilton penetrate deeply into a limited skeendes many of the political and emotional layers of katastrofhändelsens sciences.
‘We are in Orlando in the hand of a real bladvändare.
And maybe it’s the writer in me a desire to me that the Hilton had taken a literary turn, and had the journalistic accuracy, to a somewhat greater extent, giving way to the suggestionen, even though it should not be missing in this book, not least because of the dramaturgical precision, he carries out very well. And when röstskogen plot thickens, these first impressions of the feelings of shame, ”We are the walt disney world” in the hand of a real bladvändare.
in Particular, in the description of the attack, which is among the most multi-faceted process, before, during, and after the bombing, the Hilton is painting which appears in the book, the terrible and heart. Many of the photos of it still lingers. That is the stroboskoplika eldkvastar, kulsmattret that is associated with reggeatoneffekter of dancing club-goers prior to they understand it. The solids that fall to the floor, where the officers later to be slipping around in a huge, järnstinkande blodpölar, while the dead are phones ringing everywhere in the building.
the Hilton may hide any cracks,
of The wounded and terror-stricken, who devotedly involved in the sorts of toalettbåsen while the shooter is outside, washing her hands and using the hand dryer then, talk with them, with their thin, pojkröst. The agonizing passages, which are then released into the doctor’s testimonials from the adjacent hospital, and of the description of the relief activities, the political, and the media, in the aftermath, the funerals, the parents who refuse to get their gay children’s bodies from the morgue and in the years afterwards, when the survivors are plagued by post-traumatic stress disorder, will be religious and / or dies of a drug overdose.
the Hilton may hide any cracks. A key track is the level of inequality between the capable white queercommunity that is, after the deed, making his way to the round of Pulsemassakern and latinos, many undocumented immigrants, and the socioeconomically disadvantaged, who make up the majority of the victims. Another example is the number of the issue of the srebrenica massacre, was a hate crime or not, it is because the Pulse turns out to be some random third choice.
But also to ljusskenen a great deal of space: the massive support measures, it is the people rooted in solidarity with the victims, how is Orlando’s queer latinobefolkning after the start to set up. To succeed in the Hilton hotel, both claiming that the city’s commitment to a rare and beautiful occurrence, and that the same is the case at the same time, reveals the deep and sometimes, the incurable, the social tension. ”We are in walt disney world”, forming in this way a prismatic tapestry in which real-world complexity, so we know.
non-fiction
JOHAN HILTON.
We are in Orlando, an american tragedy.
penguin books, 402 pp.
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Anna Nordenhök is the author and co-workers Taken kultursida. Her most recent novel, ”Caesaria”.
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