Refugee Tales (2): Volume II - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1910974307 ISBN 13: 9781910974308

Casa editrice: Comma Pr, 2017

Riassunto

Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry...After years of travelling and losing almost everything – his country, his children, his wife, his farm – an Afghan man finds unexpected warmth and comfort in a stranger’s home...A student protester is forced to leave his homeland after a government crackdown, and spends the next 25 years in limbo, trapped in the UK asylum system... Modelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. Here, poets and novelists create a space in which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and listening becomes an act of welcome.

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Recensione:

'A wonderful way of re-humanising some of the most vulnerable and demonised people on the planet.' --Shami Chakrabarti

'The best arguments I have ever read - albeit through tears - for why asylum is not a privilege bu a right.' --Gillian Slovo

'A book which I hope will change the world- or at least begin to.' --Yvette Huddleston, The Yorkshire Post

L'autore:

David Herd is a poet, critic, and teacher. His collections of poetry include All Just (Carcanet 2012), Outwith (Bookthug 2012), and Through (Carcanet 2016), and his recent writings on the politics of human movement have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Parallax and Almost Island. He is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent, has worked with Kent Refugee Help since 2009, and is a coordinator of Refugee Tales. Anna Pincus, a founder and coordinator of Refugee Tales, has worked for Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group for ten years supporting people held in immigration detention and the volunteers who visit them weekly, managing outreach work and raising awareness about the campaign to end indefinite detention.

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• Editore: Comma Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1910974307
• ISBN 13: 9781910974308
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 137
• Redattore: Herd David, Pincus Anna