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After guards find a book in his cell containing the pencilled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is "validated" for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit, or SHU. Life in the SHU is monotonous, isolating, and enraging. It literally drives prisoners insane. Rodrigo resolves to survive. He struggles to maintain a connection to his daughter, Luz, through letters that are his only happiness. As Luz grows up,though, she presses Rodrigo for more insight into his daily life. She wants the real him. Willing to give her anything she asks, but finding himself at a loss for words, Rodrigo makes a mistake that threatens to destroy the trust between them. Meanwhile a bold, state-wide hunger strike in California prisons gathers force. Gang enmities are set aside. Improbable alliances are forged. Activists and prisoner families organize on the outside. Finding herself increasingly politicized over this issue, Luz fears she can never help her dad. Rodrigo fears he 's lost his daughter forever. On opposite sides of the prison walls they fight to end the torture of endless isolation. Based on the events of the historic 2013 California prison hunger strike,Flying Kites is a story about resilience, forgiveness, hope, and what it means to find your own voice.… (más)
As part of a class project, Stanford University students produced this historical fiction to help educate about the abuses of solitary confinement in California and most American prison systems. Amongst the true events of the 2013 prisoner hunger strike intended to draw attention to the problems, the creative team has tucked in a little inspirational story about a daughter's relationship with her imprisoned father.
I like the information and spirit, even if the writing is a little unpolished at times. My main reservation is the varying quality of the artwork, produced by two or more different artists, only one of whom I would consider good. It's particularly jarring when two different artists are featured on the same two-page spread, each depicting the same character in their own distinct manner.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Flying Kites is dedicated to the faculty of the Stanford Creative Writing Program: Elizabeth Tallent, Patrick Phillips, Change-rae Lee, Adam Johnson, and -- most especially -- the late Eavan Boland. Their support and inspiration constantly remind us not just of the power of story, but of its absolute essentialness.
We would also like to dedicate this work to everyone who participated in the California Prisoner Hunger Strike in 2013. The ripple-effects of your brave action are still being seen today in a younger generation that refuses to accept the status quo of dehumanization and unjust punishment.
Also, to the 80,000-100,000 individuals suffering in solitary confinement across the country today. Don't give up. W are out here, fighting for you, slowly but surely giving. birth to a better world.
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This is how they break you. They call this the SHU. Secure Housing Unit. We call it the hole or the box. Most people know it as solitary confinement.
Citas
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Luz, I was afraid you would stop caring about me. I could never stop caring.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Researched, written, and illustrated by the members of the by the 2018-2019 Stanford Graphic Novel Project: Bae, Peter DiCampo, Elena Kamas, Candice Kim, Katherine Liu, Lily Nilipour, Danial Shadmany, Sarah Shourd, Luke Soon-Shiong, Sharon Tran, Nik Wesson, Serena Zhang, Lucy Zhu. Editors: Scott Hutchins and Shimon Tanaka. Art Director: Andy Warner.
Contents: Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike -- Appendix A: Timeline of the California Prison Hunger Strikes -- Appendix B: Solitary by the Numbers -- Appendix C: Interview with Charles Carbone -- Appendix D: The Campaign to End Solitary, Compiled with the assistance of Solitary Watch -- What You Can Do to End Solitary Confinement -- Student Essay -- The Inside Story: How We Created Flying Kites -- A Note from the Instructors -- About the Stanford Graphic Novel Project -- The Making of a Page -- Student Bios -- Teaching Assistants -- Instructors -- Other Titles by the Stanford Graphic Novel Project -- Acknowledgments
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
After guards find a book in his cell containing the pencilled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is "validated" for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit, or SHU. Life in the SHU is monotonous, isolating, and enraging. It literally drives prisoners insane. Rodrigo resolves to survive. He struggles to maintain a connection to his daughter, Luz, through letters that are his only happiness. As Luz grows up,though, she presses Rodrigo for more insight into his daily life. She wants the real him. Willing to give her anything she asks, but finding himself at a loss for words, Rodrigo makes a mistake that threatens to destroy the trust between them. Meanwhile a bold, state-wide hunger strike in California prisons gathers force. Gang enmities are set aside. Improbable alliances are forged. Activists and prisoner families organize on the outside. Finding herself increasingly politicized over this issue, Luz fears she can never help her dad. Rodrigo fears he 's lost his daughter forever. On opposite sides of the prison walls they fight to end the torture of endless isolation. Based on the events of the historic 2013 California prison hunger strike,Flying Kites is a story about resilience, forgiveness, hope, and what it means to find your own voice.
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I like the information and spirit, even if the writing is a little unpolished at times. My main reservation is the varying quality of the artwork, produced by two or more different artists, only one of whom I would consider good. It's particularly jarring when two different artists are featured on the same two-page spread, each depicting the same character in their own distinct manner.
This book and two other recent books in the Stanford Graphic Novel Project are available to read digitally for free at https://graphicnovelproject.sites.stanford.edu/books. (