Poulomi Basu: Centralia. Published by Dewi Lewis, 2019. Hardcover with speckled covers, 8" x 12", 192 pages. Text in English. First edition. This copy is in Like New condition. Includes original insert images, postcard and pamphlet/zine. Ships media mail. Free local pickup available from our retail location in Carrboro, NC during normal business hours. Publisher description: Centralia exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. In war, truth is the first casualty and Centralia explores the unsteady relationship between reality and fiction and how our perceptions of reality and truth are manipulated. Combining tropes of documentary and fiction, art historian Emilia Terracciano, writing in 1000words magazine, has called Centralia a ‘hallucinatory reflection’ where an invisible conflict between a guerilla army, an indigenous people and the Indian state is associated with wider issues of environmental degradation. Such exploitation comes at a price: the transmogrification of violence into the de-facto language of politics. The voice of resistance is buried by alternate facts. Freedom is shrinking and what we say and who we are is being obscured.