The District Network of Public Libraries of Bogotá (BibloRed), makes readings and resources from the Bogotá Digital Library available to all, as an invitation to discover in reading different ways of telling, reading and expressing ourselves, because a city that reads is a city that cares.
Through these resources We invite children, youth and adults, to know part of the history of Colombia and the world, historical, political and social moments and events that contextualize the country’s situations that have been decisive for different decisions of public interest.
Let us find in poetry, stories, fables, photography and even theater, an opportunity to share dreams, hopes and ideas that help collective thinking in the search for solutions and well-being for all.
We invite you to know these 10 resources and to consult more in the Bogotá Digital Library and the BibloRed catalog:
1. Tamalameque’s Fables
Manuel Zapata Olivella, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng
It contains a group of fables that can be read individually or as chapters of a children’s novel, where animals come together seeking to achieve peace among themselves. In this way, the author used a current topic on the country’s agenda and, in addition, incorporated characteristic elements of the geographical area of Tamalameque, in Cesar, Colombia.
2. Walden or life in the woods and On the duty of civil disobedience
H. D. Thoreau
Informal diary of a man who takes refuge in nature. He became the spiritual father of the quarry of Yankee writers who declared themselves anti-American. It also includes his work, On the duty of civil disobedience, criticism of unjust laws.
3. The song of the Flies: version of events
In 24 short poems, María Mercedes Carranza takes a tour of the areas that were besieged by national violence in the last decades of the 20th century.
4. The Immortelle
Play that portrays the events of the Palace of Justice and the reality of the family of the disappeared.
Social mobilization throughout history has been recorded. In the #BibliotecaDigitalDeBogota you can find the collection that brings together books, articles and photographs on this topic to #LeerParaLaVida. Check them here: https://t.co/XEE51Bf32Hpic.twitter.com/jeiE4JzC4f
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5. Long live the companions
Tales of the writer Carlos Arturo Truque. The central theme is popular struggles and rebellion.
6. Social mobilization
A collaborative collection that brings together books, articles and photographs on processes of social mobilization worldwide.
7. Tales of death and freedom
It brings together 10 stories by Manuel Zapata Olivella where the central theme is the fight for freedom as an inalienable right.
8. Long live the Pola!
Biography of Policarpa Salavarrieta, commonly called La Pola, an outstanding character in the history of Colombia for her condition as a revolutionary, a brave woman committed to a cause, in a historical moment where the role of women was generally passive and submissive. The book emphasizes the feminine personality and sensitivity to the revolutionary and patriotic cause.
9. The dragon fish
The protagonist of the present novel is Lan-may, a young Chinese girl who one day finds a strange fish in the nearby river. This allows her to also meet another being, who is equally strange to her: a western girl. These encounters will take her on an exciting adventure, showing her that western and eastern girls have the same dreams and aspire to the same rights.
10. Social mobilization in Colombia: student marches (2011) and peasant marches (2013)
This book is the fruit of a work that sought to establish what were the motivations that these social actors had to mobilize; how they were organized locally and nationally; what repertoires of action were used and for what purpose, and what were the patterns of presentation of information about the marches in the main media in the country; using for this purpose the theory of framing. Find this resource in the Virgilio Barco, Manuel Zapata Olivella – El Tintal, Gabriel García Márquez – Tunal and Lago Timiza libraries.
Check them here.
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