Reading Booker Prize Winner “Amsterdam” from a Female of Color Reader POV
Ian Mc Ewan’s “Amsterdam” – Booker Prize Winner, 1998.
Category: Literary Fiction
[#DecolonizeBookshelves2022] Zuleika’s Gilded Cage as “The Emperor’s Babe”
“I knew you would make my world larger,
It was so small, inside and out,
I would discover more of myself through you.”
– The Emperor’s Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
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The Enduring, Undeniable Magic Of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino.
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Weapons of Disempowered Women Across Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Israel in Susan Abulhawa’s “Against The Loveless World”
“I colonized the colonizer’s space of authority. I made myself free in chains and held that courtroom captive to my freedom.” – Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa.
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[#DecolonizeBookshelves2022] Witch Women And Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
“Even if you had the words, you could never tell me. You don’t know your own heart, men. Even when you are speaking with it in your hand.”
-Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories.
Gathering Books 