Paisley (The Emma Press Pamphlets): Poems: 16 - Brossura

Rakhshan Rizwan

 
9781910139783: Paisley (The Emma Press Pamphlets): Poems: 16
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ISBN 10: 1910139785 ISBN 13: 9781910139783
Casa editrice: Emma Press, 2017

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Rakhshan Rizwan's debut collection simmers with a poised, driving anger. Drawing on the rich visual and material culture of her home region, Rizwan unpacks and offers critical comment on the vexed issues of class, linguistic and cultural identity – particularly for women – in the context of Pakistan and South Asia. She writes about the hypocrisy of the men who claim to worship women, the nuances of using Urdu or Hindi, and the many contradictions of the city of her birth, Lahore. As well as startling free verse, Rizwan's many accomplished ghazals both explore and demonstrate her fascination with multilingualism, code-switching, displacement and belonging. The poems in Paisley are an unflinchingly feminist assault on received ideas about womanhood which present the reader with often-uncomfortable truths.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Rakhshan Rizwan was born in Lahore, Pakistan and moved to Germany where she studied Literature and New Media. She is currently a PhD candidate at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her poems have appeared in Blue Lyra Review, Bird's Thumb, aaduna, The Missing Slate, Postcolonial Text and elsewhere. She is the winner of the Judith Khan Memorial Poetry Prize. Pisley is her first pamphlet.

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Editore
Emma Press
Data di pubblicazione
2017
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1910139785
ISBN 13 
9781910139783
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
36
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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