Description
| Product ID: | 9781913867270 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Untold Microcosms |
| Subtitle: | Latin American Writers in the British Museum |
| Authors: | Author: Carolina Orloff, Sophie Hughes |
| Page Count: | 151 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, History of the Americas, Colonialism and imperialism, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, History of the Americas, Colonialism & imperialism, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Latin America |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 RibeiroThe 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Charco Press |
| Publisher Name: | Charco Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-09-06 |
