Zazu dreams
Subtitle: between the scarab and the dung beetle
By: as told to Cara Judea Alhadeff ; paintings by Micaela Amateau Amato
Publisher: Eifrig Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Lemont, PA; Berlin, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781632331205; 9781632331182; 9781632331199
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fables; Jews; History; Juvenile literature; Sephardim; Human ecology; Biotic communities; Environmental justice; Creative nonfiction
Description: "Zazu dreams is a fable for adults, written as a children's narrative. A tale of environmental justice, a Sephardic boy and his imaginary Malamute husky traverse the globe on a humpback whale. Their adventures unfold as they witness contrary human ecologies--experiencing symbiotic and contentious relationships between humans and the environment. Crossing temporal dimensions and international borders, past, present, and future overlap through phantasmagorical encounters with historical heroes like Jacques Cousteau, Harriet Tubman, Spinoza, Rachel Carson, and ibn Sina, and 21st century villains like Nestlé, Merck, Exxon, and Monsanto--Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Agribusiness giants that stalk the planet"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "A cautionary fable for the Anthropocene Era"--Cover.

Title-vignette.

"Zazu dreams is divided into two parts: the narrative--"A cautionary fable for the Anthropocene Era," and extended endnotes--"The 21st century Arcades Project." These arcades expand and historicize the illustrated text."--Page 6.

Micaela Amateau Amato is Professor Emerita of Visual Arts and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

"Additional resources for further reading/discussion": Page 139.
Table of contents: title: A guide to Zazu dreams; title: Beyond the Anthopocene; title: Pirates of the Caribbean; title: The oldest Jews on the planet; title: "Spooky action at a distance"; title: "It takes a village..."; title: Mashallah!; title: Quantum entanglements; title: Between the scarab and the dung beetle; title: Worms and germs; title: A Möbius chronolgy of selected geologic and human events preceding our petro-chemical era; title: The 21st century Arcades Project.