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Title: Hawks of the Sun: A Filmscript Autobiographical Story About a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chile (1966-68) Facing the Challenges of Culture and Adaptation
Date: 2020
Creator: Karem, Kenneth
Description: This filmscript describes many events in the two-year Peace Corps service of volunteer Kenny Karem in Chile, working in agriculture, education and forestry. It focuses on his relationships with Chilean friends, co-workers, Mapuche Indians and campesino farmers. It details actual events, cultural happenings, fiestas, cross-cultural snafus, the challenges of adapting to a foreign culture and the tremendous impact politics in Chile had on a volunteer’s service. Two of the scenes, “Coca Cola is Everything and Something More” and “Day of the Dead” were previously published in magazines.
Subject: Volunteers -- Chile -- Motion picture plays
Country: Chile
Local Identifier: PCCA_Karem_0001
Type: screenplays
Collection: Kenneth Karem collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3162
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Title: It Seemed Like a Dream: A Peace Corps Volunteer Returns to his Community in Chile
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Karem, Kenneth
Description: The article, “It Seemed Like a Dream” describe Kenny Karem’s return visit to his Chilean community and friends in 1995. He has maintained communication with them ever since his volunteer days up to the present time. This article had been previously published in a magazine.
Subject: Volunteers -- Chile
Country: Chile
Local Identifier: PCCA_Karem_0002
Type: essays
Collection: Kenneth Karem collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3163
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