Refugee Tales (2) - Couverture souple

Kay, Jackie; Laing, Olivia; Holmes, Rachel; Bergvall, Caroline; Cohen, Josh; Shamsie, Kamila; Mukherjee, Neel; Duhig, Ian; Macdonald, Helen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910974307 ISBN 13 : 9781910974308

Editeur : Comma Press, 2017

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jackie Kay MBE FRSE is a Scottish poet and novelist. She is the third modern Makar, the Scottish poet laureate and winner of the Guardian Fiction prize. Dame Marina Warner, DBE, FRSL, FBA is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer, Booker Prize nominated for her novel The Lost Father. Kamila Shamsie is the author of five novels, including Burnt Shadows which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into over 20 languages. Neel Mukherjee was born in Calcutta and educated in Calcutta, Oxford, and Cambridge. He is the author of the Man Booker prize-shortlisted The Lives of Others, A Life Apart (2010), and Past Continuous (2008). He reviews fiction for the Times and the Sunday Telegraph and has written for the TLS, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the New York Times, the Boston Review, and Biblio. Olivia Laing is a British writer and critic, author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City. Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist, and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science; her memoir H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year award among other honours. Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of several books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory, and psychoanalysis, including How to Read Freud. Ian Duhig has written six collections of poetry and has won the National Poetry Competition twice. Caroline Bergvall is a poet and performer of French-Norwegian nationalities. Rachel Holmes is an author, her most recent work is Eleanor Marx: A Life.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Upon changing his religion, a young student is denounced as an apostate and flees his country in the back of a freezer lorry...

After years of travelling and losing almost everything- his country, his children, his wife, his farm- an Afghan man finds unexpected warmth and comfort in a stranger's home...

A student protester is forced to leave his homeland after a government crackdown, and spends the next 25 years in limbo, trapped in the UK asylum system...

Modelled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. Here, poets and novelists create a space in which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and listening becomes an act of welcome.

All profits go to the Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group and Kent Help for Refugees.

Tales include:

The Smuggled Person's Tale- Jackie Kay

The Mother's Tale - Marina Warner

The Lover's Tale- Kamila Shamsie

The Abandoned Person's Tale- Olivia Laing

The Student's Tale- Helen Macdonald

The Support Worker's Tale- Josh Cohen

The Voluntary Returner's Tale- Caroline Bergvall

The Barrister's Tale-Rachel Holmes

The Soldier's Tale- Neel Mukherjee

The Walking Man's Tale- Ian Duhig

The Witness' Tale- Alex Preston

The launch of this second collection of stories was combined with a walk from Runnymede to Westminster calling for a change in the British law, to acknowledge the rights of people without citizenship, more info at refugeetales.org.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Comma Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1910974307
• ISBN 13: 9781910974308
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Herd David