Loisaida, Dan Chodorkoff
Burlington: Fomite Press, 2011, 338 pp.
http://www.fomitepress.com/FOMITE/Loisaida.html
A cikin 1980s, Ƙarshen Gabas ta Tsakiya na Manhattan ya kasance a cikin lokacin canji. Har yanzu akwai sauran ragowar tsoffin al'adun baƙi waɗanda suka ƙirƙira asalin unguwar a farkon ƙarni na 20, duk da cewa zitgeist ɗinsa ya sami sabon salo ta hanyar kwararar Puerto Rican na shekaru sittin da saba'in. Rundunar ta'addanci - wanda a cikin shekarun da suka gabata sun juya kusan dukkanin Manhattan zuwa wani yanki mai wadata - sun fara gano abin da wannan unguwa, kusa da gabashin Greenwich Village, ya bayar. Don haka akwai wuraren cin abinci na Ukrainian da shagunan tufafin Yahudawa, bodegas da boutiques, ban da wasu sandunan latte na farko, duk suna ƙoƙarin zama tare a cikin tukunyar da ba ta da ƙarfi sosai.
A cikin wannan mahaɗa mai cike da tashin hankali, kwararowar ƴan ƴan-sandan-sandan da ke ƙwazo sun fara mamaye gine-ginen da aka yi watsi da su kuma suna ƙoƙarin ƙirƙirar sabbin ƙirar gidaje na birane. Wani lokaci suna yin haɗin gwiwa tare da masu fafutuka na Puerto Rican don kafa daidaiton gumi, gina lambuna na al'umma, da kuma tsayayya da mafi yawan masu haɓakawa. Sau da yawa sukan kalli juna da wasu kyama: 'yan anarchists, kamar hippies da suka mamaye "Kauyen Gabas" a cikin shekarun da suka gabata sun kasance 'yan gudun hijira daga yankuna masu wadata, kuma Puerto Ricans kawai ba su kasance masu gwagwarmaya ko siyasa ba don wasu. masu tsuguno.
Wannan shine saitin Dan Chodorkoff's Loisaida, wani labari mai ban sha'awa mai ban sha'awa wanda ke kwatanta tafiyar wata budurwa ta gano kanta da kuma farkawa ta siyasa. Catherine mai gashi mai launin shuɗi na ɗaya daga cikin waɗancan ƴan gudun hijira na kewayen birni. Ta tsere daga wani yanki mai sassaucin ra'ayi amma mai aminci sosai a cikin Scarsdale don zama tare da masoyinta a cikin ƙaramin yanki na Gabas ta Tsakiya kuma ta yi aiki a kan jaridar anarchist, kyakkyawar niyya amma ta wuce gona da iri. Ɗaya daga cikin waɗancan lambunan al'umma-a cikin wannan yanayin da masu fafutuka na Puerto Rican suka kafa amma kwanan nan masu fafutuka da masu fafutuka suka fi yawan zuwa - an tsara shi don rushewa a ƙarƙashin hujjar gina gidaje masu ƙarancin kuɗi. Ƙungiya ta ƙara zama polarized, kuma Catherine ta fara samun muryarta. Chodorkoff, wanda ya kafa Cibiyar Nazarin Harkokin Kiwon Lafiyar Jama'a a Vermont, amma ya rayu kuma ya yi aiki a cikin Ƙananan Gabas ta Gabas na mafi yawan shekaru tamanin, ya san yanayin sosai, kuma ya zana da yawa daga yawancin mutanen da ya sani kuma ya yi aiki tare a cikin waɗannan shekarun. .
Jarumi ne masu ban sha'awa waɗanda za su dace da duk wanda ya saba da New York na shekarun da suka gabata. Akwai tsohon shugaban kungiyar wanda ya zama mafi inganci kuma mai tsara kwarjini a unguwar-wani hali da aka tsara bayan abokin Chodorkoff Chino Garcia-da kuma wani shugaban gungun 'yan gyare-gyare' wanda a maimakon haka ya zama dan siyasa mai cin hanci da rashawa. Akwai tsohuwar mawallafin jaridar Yippie tare da ƙwararrun masu mulki, uwa ɗaya da ke neman ingantacciyar rayuwa ga kanta da ɗanta ƙarami, da kowane irin mawaƙan mawaƙan titi, dillalan muggan ƙwayoyi, ƴan tsana masu tsattsauran ra'ayi, da sauran matasa masu manufa. Amma a cikin ƙwararrun kalmomi na Chodorkoff, cike da ƙauna da ƙauna ga waɗannan mutane da maƙwabtansu, sun yi nisa da kawai archetypes; sun zama yanki mai ban sha'awa na bil'adama masu gwagwarmaya da rayuwa a lokuta masu canzawa. Mun fuskanci farin ciki, abubuwan jin daɗi, jin daɗi da jin tsoro na New York a tsakiyar tashin hankali da canji.
Yayin da al'amuran Loisaida ke bayyana (lakabin wani nau'in fassarar Spanglish ne na "Ƙasashen Gabas ta Tsakiya" wanda ya zama sananne a cikin waɗannan shekarun), an jawo mu cikin sarƙaƙƙiya da rashin tabbas na wannan duniyar. Mutane suna da manufa, amma butulci ne; m, amma wani lokacin irrepressibly macho; ƙudirin yin abin da ya dace, amma an kama shi a cikin ƙa'idodin ƙananan al'adu daban-daban waɗanda ke sa da wuya a ga yadda duniya ke kallon daga idanun wasu. Akwai lokutan bayyanawa, da kuma na shakkar gaske, yayin da mutane ke ƙoƙarin kaiwa ga bambance-bambancen su don ceton unguwa.
Halin da ya haɗa shi duka, ya ƙunshi tarihin unguwar, kuma ya jagoranci Catherine kan tafiyarta ta farkawa ita ce kakarta mai girma, Sonia, 'yar gudun hijira daga czarist Rasha wadda ta zauna a unguwar a farkon karni na 20. Sonia ta kasance a tsakiyar tashin hankalin ma'aikata na farkon karni, da kuma ƙoƙarin kiyaye al'adun gargajiya a cikin shekarun da suka gabata na yaki, danniya da kuma ware al'adu. Muna ziyarce ta, tare da Catherine, a cikin gidan renonta, kuma muna karanta manyan bayanai na tarihin baka da ta rubuta wa mahaifin Catherine a lokacin tsayin tunaninsa na 1960s. Kamar yadda Catherine ta gano ɓoyayyun danginta a baya, mun gano lokacin da mutane suka sadaukar da kowane lokaci na rayuwarsu don ƙirƙirar ingantacciyar duniya.
Sonia kuma ta gabatar da Catherine ga Jack Hoffman, tsarar da ba su wuce Sonia ba, kuma a sahun gaba na wayewar yanayin muhalli na birane na wannan zamani. Halin Hoffman, ba shakka, an ƙirƙira shi ne bayan babban abokin Chodorkoff kuma mai ba da shawara, Murray Bookchin, wanda ya kafa ka'idar ilimin zamantakewa, kuma yana raba halayen acerbic na Bookchin, da kuma tunaninsa mara misaltuwa don sukar zamantakewa da babban haɗin kai. Abin da Sonia ke bayarwa ta hanyar labarunta, Hoffman ya ƙarfafa tare da tunaninsa game da abin da ake nufi da rayuwa don ra'ayi da sadaukar da rayuwar mutum ga hangen nesa mai kyau na duniya mafi kyau. Tare da Catherine, mun zo don ganin abin da ake nufi da kai fiye da iyakokin matasa masu fafutuka, tare da jin daɗin rayuwa a wannan lokacin, da kuma sadaukar da kai ga dogon lokaci na canji na zamantakewa. Loisaida yana da mahimmanci kuma mai ban sha'awa karatu ga duk wanda ke sha'awar New York, al'adun matasa, juyin halittar sanannen tsattsauran ra'ayi, ko kawai neman kyakkyawan labari.
Brian Tokar shine darekta na yanzu na Cibiyar Nazarin Ilimin zamantakewa (social-ecology.org) kuma malami a cikin nazarin muhalli a Jami'ar Vermont. Littattafansa na baya-bayan nan sune Game da Adalci na Yanayi (New Compass Press, 2010, wanda AK Press ya rarraba) da Noma da Abinci a cikin Rikici (wanda aka haɗa tare da Fred Magdoff, Latsa Bita na kowane wata, 2010).
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