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Things I Have Withheld (Paperback, Main)
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Things I Have Withheld (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE
BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR
POLITICAL WRITING In this astonishing 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 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. With both the epigrammatic concision and
conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, Things I Have
Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a work of beauty which
challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why - our
actions, defence mechanisms, imaginations and interactions - and
those of the world around us.
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