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Things I have withheld : essays

Miller, Kei2022
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In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it - to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit - the crimes that haunt them, and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood. Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Derek Walcott, Liam Neeson, Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, white women's tears, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice.
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
StockroomAdult non-fiction paperback814.6 MILAvailable
Main title:
Author:
Miller, Kei, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2022.
Collation:
xv, 206 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.
ISBN:
9781838852825 (pbk)
Dewey class:
814.6814.6 MIL
Local class:
CU.6/MIL
Language:
English
BRN:
3242656
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