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Silence of the Chagos
Based on a true, still-unfolding story, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural identity, the concept of home, and above all the neverending desire for justice. Shenaz Patel draws on the lives of exiled Chagossians in this tragic example of 20th century political oppression. Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze “back there”: to Diego Garcia, one of the small islands forming the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean. With no explanation, no forewarning, and only an hour to pack their belongings, the Chagossians are deported to Mauritius. Officials tell her that the island is “closed”...
The Mauritian Novel
This book analyses how the idea – or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary ‘politics of belonging’ in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again
In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting digital anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, and artists from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. Net proceeds benefit booksellers in need. As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. In Mauritius, a journalist contends with denialism and mourns the last days of summer, lost to the lockdown. In Paris, a writer struggles to protect his young son from fear. In Chile, protesters who prevailed against tear gas and rubber bullets are now halted by a virus. I...
Le silence des Chagos
Le gardien du port connaît bien Charlesia. Elle passe régulièrement devant sa guérite et scrute l'horizon, dans l'attente vaine d'un bateau qui la ramènera chez elle. Diego Garcia, son île natale, n'est plus qu'un souvenir, celui d'une vie simple, rythmée par la production du coprah, les jeux des enfants, le seraz de poisson-banane et le séga du samedi soir. Depuis des années, Charlesia se heurte aux questions que lui pose un jeune homme. Désiré pourrait être son fils. Confronté au mystère de sa naissance, il découvre peu à peu le drame de ses parents, et de son entourage. Le Silence des Chagos, basé sur une histoire vraie, est un des rares livres à explorer cette tragédie méconnue : le drame intérieur des Chagossiens, leur déportation et leur existence de déracinés à l'île Maurice, depuis que Diego Garcia est devenue une base militaire américaine à la fin des années 1960. Édition augmentée d'une postface inédite de l'auteur.
Die Stille von Chagos. Roman
Shenaz Patels Roman zeichnet das Schicksal der Chagossianer nach, einer Volksgruppe, die auf den Inseln des Chagos-Archipels im Indischen Ozean lebte, bis sie ab Mitte der 1960er Jahre von dort vertrieben wurde. Die Chagos-Inseln gehören noch zum britischen Territorium und wurden für 50 Jahre an die USA verpachtet, die dort eine Militärbasis errichtet haben. Von hier wurden und werden Luftangriffe auf den Irak und Afghanistan geflogen. Die Inselbewohner hat man zwangsumgesiedelt – die meisten landeten in Slums in der mauritischen Hauptstadt Port Louis. Die Vertriebenen kämpfen bis heute vor Gericht vergeblich um ihre Rückkehr. Der Roman zeigt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven die Schicks...
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Glorious Boy
“An absolutely gorgeous historical novel . . . set against the backdrop of a tribe in the Andamans struggling with British rule . . . Just magnificent.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You One of Booklist’s Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2020 Glorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail. Set in India’s remote Andaman Islands before and during WWII, the story revolves around a mysteriously mute four-year-old who vanishes on the eve of the Japanese occupation. Little Ty’s parents, Shep and Claire, will go to any lengths to rescue him, but neither is prepared for the brutal and soul-changing o...
Rethinking African Cultural Production
Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.
