of literature
FORGOTTEN Voices
june | forgotten voices: rediscovery
buddy read: barracoon by zora neale hurston
why was barracoon not published back in 1931?
july | revolutionary women
discussion: how are revolutionary women represented in literature?
communists, mixed-race revolutionaries, the arab spring
august | women in translation
celebration: who are some of your favourite female authors in translation?
translation and translators, diverse reading
september | in between worlds
discussion: how have the voices of migrant communities been silenced?
comfort women, 2nd generation migrants, women
october | systematic erasure
discussion: in what ways have some voices been systematically forgotten?
horrors of colonialism, islamophobia and military oppression
Forgotten Voices of Literature
June 2018
The #forgottenvoicesofliterature hashtag is an attempt to raise awareness of our inbuilt tendency to read only voices from within our own cultures or experiences. This tendency has led to the sometimes unintentional, but often systematic, erasure of certain voices within the literary canon. Some of those voices, the anti-colonial, the communist, were erased for political reasons; others, those of women and people of colour, were erased for both political and social reasons. Created by @theopenbookshelf and @sarah89reads, this project aims to gather like-minded readers and thinkers in order to rediscover some of these forgotten voices.
The writers who are allowed to talk are those who prop up the dominant culture, who reflect it with a gilded mirror.
Follow @theopenbookshelf and @sarah89reads on Instagram for more, and check out our latests #bookstagramchallenge here.
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