The I Index

Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World

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/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

98/100

Critics

7/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Eliane Brum, Diane Grosklaus Whitty

Publisher:

Graywolf Press

Date:

March 7, 2023

A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.

What The Reviewers Say

William Atkins,
The New York Times Book Review
The prose — riddling, elliptical, sometimes convoluted — is no walk in the park, nor is it meant to be.

Kirkus
Brum adopts an unconventional form to her work as a way of shedding the uncomfortable colonial connotations of her own Whiteness.

Publishers Weekly
Uneven polemic.