Not Quite Right For Us
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2021
Flipped Eye Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-905233-63-2 (ISBN)
Flipped Eye Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-905233-63-2 (ISBN)
Defiant, humorous and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories, essays and poems by a dynamic mix of established and surging voices alike, edited by Sharmilla Beezmohun.
Defiant, humorous, empathetic and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories, essays and poems by a dynamic mix of established and surging voices alike, edited by Sharmilla Beezmohun and including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Aminatta Forna, Xiaolu Guo, Johny Pitts, Rishi Dastidar, Tim Wells and Rafeef Ziadah. This remarkable anthology marks the tenth anniversary of the live-literature organisation co-founded by Sharmilla, Speaking Volumes. Part cri du coeur, part warning shot, part affirmation, this is the book we need now.
Defiant, humorous, empathetic and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories, essays and poems by a dynamic mix of established and surging voices alike, edited by Sharmilla Beezmohun and including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Aminatta Forna, Xiaolu Guo, Johny Pitts, Rishi Dastidar, Tim Wells and Rafeef Ziadah. This remarkable anthology marks the tenth anniversary of the live-literature organisation co-founded by Sharmilla, Speaking Volumes. Part cri du coeur, part warning shot, part affirmation, this is the book we need now.
SHARMILLA BEEZMOHUN has worked in publishing since 1994 and was the Deputy Editor of Wasafiri. Sharmilla’s first novel, Echoes of a Green Land, was published in translation in Spain. She edited Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception and co-edited A Meeting of the Continents. Sharmilla is a Trustee of Carcanet Publishers and the George Padmore Institute. She is also on the international organising committee of AfroEurope@s.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Linton Kwesi Johnson |
| Verlagsort | Ilford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 284 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-905233-63-9 / 1905233639 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-905233-63-2 / 9781905233632 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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