Znetwork.org’s Alexandria Shaner sat down with activist-author Tamara Pearson to discuss her new novel, The Eyes of the Earth, and how storytelling as resistance can unravel discourse, confront reality and explore possibilities.
Tamara Pearson
Coral Wynter reviews The Eyes of the Earth, a magical realist novel that follows the life of a Honduran refugee eking out an existence in Mexico City.
While good reporting helps us to be aware of, and understand current events, social change is a long-term endeavour that requires imagination, vision and deconstruction of the status quo. This forum explores the vital role of storytelling.
The Butterfly Prison
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In her debut novel The Butterfly Prison, Tamara Pearson, an Australian journalist working for Latin American news site TeleSUR in Quito, uses a poet’s sensitivity and language combined with a journalist’s eye for reportage. She weaves storylines that situate the poor and alienated as actors in resisting the living prison which dehumanises them.