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Bezig met laden... Sugar and Slate (2002)door Charlotte Williams
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In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times. Like France's Mehdi Charef, Britain's Andrea Levy or America's Edwidge Danticat, Williams examines what it feels like to long to belong, to balance difference and indifference and to map out both the potential and pitfalls of accessing many identities while feeling unable to lay full claim to any. The themes are similar, the journeys radically different. But Williams's voice is her own. "Truth is," she writes, "you just can't become something you have never seen or can't imagine. I was a lost spirit." Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)PrijzenErelijsten
The daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and a Black father from Guyana, Charlotte Williams' childhood world was one of mixed messages, dominated by the feeling that 'somehow to be half Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was always to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all'. Sugar and Slate tells the fascinating story of her journey of self-discovery, toing and froing between the small north Wales town where she grew up, Africa and the Caribbean. Blending memoir with historical research, Sugar and Slate delves deep into Black Welsh history, revealing the nation as home to one of the first interracial marriages in Britain in 1768, and a site of Britain's first major race riots in 1919. Powerful, lyrical and intimate, Williams' experience casts light on Wales and Welshness, illuminating what it is to be racially marginalized within a community, which is itself marginalized within Britain, and offering a unique insight into the complex Black history of Wales. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)942.9085092History and Geography Europe England and Wales WalesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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