Aquariums – sitting perfectly at the intersection between a family chronicle and a pandemic tale, interwoven with the disastrous progression of the climate catastrophe – offers both indecisive and openminded readers alike a bridge between historical fiction and science fiction.
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The year 2024 is coming to an end and [poco.lit.space] with it. We zoomed in on several aspects of postcolonialism in our online magazine, but also at our events and workshops.
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A life-sucking horror haunts dreams of female kinship and the prairies in a suspenseful First Nations novel from Canada.
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In my family, caste was mostly a far away concept. As an adult, I am trying to constantly interrogate my positionality within my Indian identity and that includes acknowledging the privileged aspects.
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When a book can make you look up at the sky once in a while, pause, draw in your breath, and gaze at the rustling leaves of the tree outside your window, what does it mean? That it is not gripping enough, or rather I believe that it wants everything around you to grip you completely.
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“This society is fragmented – it’s a product of colonialism, but it’s also just a fact of paradise island.”
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Wright did not create a story that is simply about the Aboriginal town of Praiseworthy in Northern Australia, she created a wholly Indigenous novel.
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When over 1 million indentured labourers left the sub-Indian continent to work in the British colonies of the world, they had to redefine their cultural identity…
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Clayton Thomas-Müller’s Life in the City of Dirty Water, A Memoir of Healing is a must read, especially for people interested in climate justice, but it can also help non-Indigenous people to understand the struggles of Indigenous communities, particularly the ones in urban areas in North America.
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Warm invitation to our cozy online workshop to welcome winter. We’ll read and write with Giuliana Kierz.
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