Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum

By Camara, Gabriela Cabezón, Lina Meruane

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Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves.

Featuring new original works by: Y?snaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Z?rate, Juan C?rdenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela Cabez?n C?mara, 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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1913867277

ISBN13:9781913867270

Release Date:September 2022

Publisher:Charco Press

Length:151 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 4.9" x 7.7"

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Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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