
- 220 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Portrait of an Island on Fire
About this book
A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history. Unceasing in its critiques of racist, patriarchal abuses of power, in its unpicking of the ills at the core of contemporary Mauritian society and their roots, the collection is a milestone in thinking about the lasting social and political effects of colonialism and how they play out at the level of government policy, the handling of environmental issues, in schools, in hospitals, in families, in language. For all its well-placed anger, Ariel Saramandi's sparklingly intelligent and intimate debut is full of love and momentum – a push for a better future for Mauritius and, by extension, for the world.
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Table of contents
- PRAISE
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- EPIGRAPH
- MAURITIUS: A CHRONOLOGY
- ALL MY LANGUAGES
- AN EDUCATION
- AN EDUCATION: ÉCRIRE EN C(H)OEUR
- THE INHERITORS
- BANN-LA
- SNAPSHOTS OF AN ISLAND ON THE FRONT LINE
- THERE IS TOO MUCH FEMINISM
- GETTING RID OF IT
- PANDEMIC IN NINE ACTS
- DEATH TAKES THE LAGOON
- REAL ESTATE
- TEN YEARS IN POWER
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT