Fred D'Aguiar's new collection connects the condition of namelessness of a famous black jockey with a present-day need to give back to those lost souls the dignity of their names.
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Fred D'Aguiar is een geprezen dichter, romanschrijver en toneelschrijver wiens werk ingaat op de complexiteit van identiteit, geschiedenis en sociale rechtvaardigheid. Zijn schrijven, gevormd door zijn Guyanese erfgoed en ervaringen die hij opdeed tussen Guyana, Londen en de Verenigde Staten, onderzoekt de ingewikkelde nalatenschap van kolonialisme en de trans-Atlantische slavenhandel. Door middel van levendige verhalen en krachtige verzen confronteert D'Aguiar ongemakkelijke waarheden over het verleden en het heden. Zijn literaire stem biedt diepe inzichten in de menselijke conditie, die geografische en culturele scheidslijnen overstijgen.
- 2023
- 2021
Year of Plagues
- 336bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope.
- 2020
The fourth Carcanet collection from Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar.
- 1998
Feeding the Ghosts
- 240bladzijden
- 9 uur lezen
Powerful and poetic, Feeding the Ghosts is an unforgettable testimony to the struggle against oblivion, and a reminder of history overlooked and truth distorted
- 1996
The youngest child of a Guyanese family is accidently hit on the head with an axe, and sees the world through a strange visionary perspective. While the family plays and squabbles, an election is brewing in the capital which leads to an unexpected act of violence that destroys the family's world.
- 1995
The Longest Memory
- 144bladzijden
- 6 uur lezen
From William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner to Toni Morrison's Beloved, modern American fiction engaged with slavery has provoked fiery controversy. So will The Longest Memory, the powerful, beautifully crafted, internationally acclaimed fictional debut of prizewinning Guyanese poet Fred D'Aguiar. In language extraordinary for its tautness and resonance, The Longest Memory tells the story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave, who in 1810 attempts to flee a Virginia plantation - and of his father who inadvertently betrays him. The young slave's love for a white girl who slakes his forbidden thirst for learning and his painful relationship with his father are hauntingly evoked in this novel of astonishing lyrical simplicity. It is a measure of D'Aguiar's achievement and bravery that The Longest Memory is informed not only by the complicities between black slave and white master but also by the tensions among slaves themselves - between stoic survivalists and passionate rebels. Remarkable for its keenness of observation, subtlety, and restraint, The Longest Memory heralds the arrival of a major new voice in the contemporary literature of the African diaspora.
