Zahlreiche Schriftsteller*innen halten der Buchbranche in ihren Romanen den Spiegel vor und befassen sich dabei mit unterschiedlichen Fragen: Für welche Leser*innen werden Bücher gemacht? Wer darf über was schreiben? Mangelt es der Literaturbranche an Diversität? Oder auch: Ist sie rassistisch?
In dieser Folge sprechen Anna und Susi über Erasure von Percival Everett (oder Ausradiert in deutscher Übersetzung, Übersetzer*in unbekannt), The Other Black Girl von Zakiya Dalila Harris (gleicher Titel in der deutschen Übersetzung von Heike Schlatterer), und Yellowface von R.F. Kuang, (ebenfalls gleicher Titel in der deutschen Übersetzung von Jasmin Humburg).
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The House of Broken Bricks is a sad and beautiful story about the cracks in the lives of the Hembrys, a mixed-race family in rural Somerset. It’s a family of four in a difficult situation and it seems like it’s going to break them. But maybe there is still a chance that they can somehow find their way back to each other?
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Why are there connections between the well-being of the people in New Orleans and Ibadan? How is the destructive hurricane in one place connected to the drying up river in the other? In Olufunke Grace Bankole’s sad and beautiful debut novel The Edge of Water, this is due to a disregarded prophecy.
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Rosarita, Desai’s newest novel, is the story of Bonita, a young Indian woman from New Delhi who has come to San Miguel, Mexico for Spanish immersion courses. One day in the Jardín, she is confronted by the woman Vicky who becomes The Stranger and later, The Trickster. The Stranger claims to have known Bonita’s mother, Sunita. Except, The Stranger calls her Rosarita. Rosarita, insists The Stranger, was once a great artist who had travelled from India to learn from the great painters of Mexico.
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Louise Kennedy’s story about the primary school teacher Cushla is set in 1975, at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in a deeply divided Belfast.
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Percival Everett’s latest novel James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, focusing on the enslaved Black side character Jim, who temporarily accompanies Huckleberry Finn on his adventures in the original story. In his novel, Everett gives Jim the opportunity to tell his own story.
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Jessica Gaitán Johannesson’s debut novel is thought-provoking in its approach to language and culture and offers up a wonderful cast of characters.
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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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A life-sucking horror haunts dreams of female kinship and the prairies in a suspenseful First Nations novel from Canada.
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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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