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Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum

Edited by Sophie Hughes, Edited by Carolina Orloff

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Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves. Featuring new original works by: Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Zárate, Juan Cárdenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Dolores Reyes, Carlos Fonseca, Djamila Ribeiro The Central and South American collection at the British Museum collections contains approximately 62,000 objects, spanning 10,000 years of human history. The vast majority cannot be displayed, and those objects are the subject of Untold Microcosms , a collection of ten stories from ten Latin American writers, and inspired by the narratives about our past that we create through museums, in spite of their gaps and disarticulations.

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Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 6 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | Charco Press
Published date | 6 Sep 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 151
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-9138-6727-0
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BISAC | literary collections / essays

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Normal Price | R 461.95
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