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Bezig met laden... Things I Have Withhelddoor Kei Miller
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"In this moving, critical, and lyrical collection of essays, by the acclaimed Forward Prize winner, Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many important things are kept. Miller examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it-to risk words, to risk truth; and through the body and the histories those bodies inherit-the crimes that haunt them, and how the meanings of our bodies can shift as we move through the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood. Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, questions of aesthetics, and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice from a black, male, queer perspective. Through a disarmingly personal lens, this collection is an account of his experiences in Jamaica and Britain, working as an artist and intellectual, making friends and lovers, discovering the possibilities of music and dance, of literary criticism, culture, and storytelling. With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a work of innovation and beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why-our actions, defense mechanisms, imaginations, and interactions-and those of the world around us"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Quotes: “Race and ethnicity are not the same things. Ethnicity is what is in your actual DNA, your genes, your ancestry. Race is how society constructs you.”
“How strange it is that the feeling of being out of body is always felt inside the body.”
“Here in Ghana, it is the harmattan – a season I have never felt or witnessed before. It is as if a huge thunderstorm is building, except there is no moisture. What I mistook as fog, I understand now is the tiniest particle of the Sahara Desert.”
“Can I really be a brother in this place if I do not speak a language from here – or if I can only speak to my brothers in the language that separated us from each other?” ( )