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Tag: Britain and Colonialism

Tomorrow They Won’t Dare To Murder Us by Joseph Andras & translated by Simon Leser

28th February 20211st March 2021  Rym Kechacha

Rym Kechacha reviews Joseph Andras’ powerful novel, Tomorrow They Won’t Dare To Murder Us, and considers the impact of colonial violence and fights for independence around the world today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Algeria, Algerian War of Independence, Britain and Colonialism, colonialism, De Nos Frères Blessés, Fiction, France, Hélier Cisterne, imperialism, Joseph Andras, Novel, novels, Prix Goncourt, Rym Kechacha, Simon Leser, Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us, Verso, Verso Books

Follow the White Rabbit: the ‘Anthropocene’, Australia and whiteness as pestilence in Amanda Parer’s Intrude at Liverpool Light Show

6th January 20208th January 2020  Sumaya Kassim

In light of Amanda Parer’s installation, Intrude, being shown at Liverpool’s Exchange Flags, Sumaya Kassim considers the environmental and cultural devastation of white colonialism in Australia.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, EnvironmentTagged: Amanda Parer, Britain and Colonialism, Claire Watson, colonialism, Environmentalism, Fauziya Johnson, Françoise Vergès, Immigration, Intrude, Kiara Flowers, Liverpool, Liverpool Exchange Flags, Nayuka Gorrie, sculpture, Violent Salt, Yhonnie Scarce
Feature image is of a British concentration camp for Boer women and children during the Boer war.

You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr – a powerful, poignant, must-read book

22nd April 201922nd April 2019  Ishita Ranjan

Damian Barr’s moving debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here, follows the stories of two people who lived over one hundred years apart, but whose lives are inexplicably connected through the colonial horrors of the past.

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Posted in Arts, Books, GeneralTagged: Bloomsbury Fiction, Boer War, Britain and Colonialism, Damian Barr, Fiction, Novel, Partition, You Will Be Safe Here

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins – a stunning, atmospheric debut

8th April 201922nd April 2019  My Ly

After several years in London, Jamaican servant Frannie Langton finds herself on trial for the murder of her English master and mistress – but she has no memory of that fatal evening. Our arts contributor, My Ly, reviews Sara Collins’ atmospheric and evocative debut novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Britain and Colonialism, Cambridge, Creative Writing, Frannie Langton, Gothic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Neo-Victorian, Nineteenth-Century Britain, Novel, Penguin, Sara Collins, Slavery and the British Empire, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Viking
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