Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa (eBook)

Alithnayn Abdulkareem, Yefon Isabelle, Julia Louw, Idza Luhumyo, Jacob M'hango, Masiyaleti Mbewe, Kevin Mogotsi, Melusi Nkomo, MacSmart Ojiludu, Edwin Okolo, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, Nadia Ahidjo, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Philisiwe Twijnstra, Doreen Anyango, Liam Brickhill, Nicholas Dawn, Victor Forna, Genna Gardini, Mbozi Haimbe, Innocent Chizaram Ilo (Autoren)

Jason Mykl Snyman, Karina M. Szczurek, Rachel Zadok (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Catalyst Press (Verlag)
978-1-946395-62-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Dissent, disease, disaster. This genre-spanning anthology explores the many ways that we grow, adapt, and survive in the face of our ever-changing global realities. These evocative, often prescient, stories showcase new and emerging writers from across Africa to investigate many of the pressing issues of our time: climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, surveillance, and more. In Disruption, authors from across Africa use their stories to explore the concept of changeenvironmental, political, and physicaland the power or impotence of the human race to innovate our way through it. From a post-apocalyptic African village in Innocent Ilos Before We Die Unwritten, to space colonization in Alithnayn Abdulkareems Static, to a mothers attempt to save her infant from a dust storm in Mbozi Haimbes Shelter, Disruption illuminates change around and within, and our infallible capacity for hope amidst disaster. Facing our shared anxieties head on, these authors scrutinize assumptions and invent worlds that combine the fantastical with the probable, the colonial with the dystopian, and the intrepid with the powerless, in stories recognizing our collective future and our disparate present. Disruption is the newest anthology from Short Story Day Africa, a non-profit organization established to develop and share the diversity of Africas voices through publishing and writing workshops.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.12.2021
• Co-Autor: Sawad Hussain
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • Africa • African diaspora • African writers • Anthology • Apartheid • Apocalyptic • BAME • BIPOC • black author • black writers • Botswana • Cameroon • Change • cli-fi • climactic disaster • climate change • climate fiction • Colonization • companionship • debut author • disaster • Disease • Displacement • Disrupting • Disruption • Drought • dystopian • earth • Fantasy • Flood • Future • Hope • Illness • Immigration • infectious disease • Innovation • Invention • Land • landslide • Libya • Movement • multi-cultural • Namibia • Nation • Nation-Building • new african writers • New voices • New writers • Nigeria • One-Child Policy • orphan • own voices • Pan-African • Pandemic • Patriarchy • post-apocalyptic • present • Present and Future • Protest • Redemption • Refugees • Short Stories • short story collection • Sierra Leone • South Africa • Uganda • unforgiving landscape • Village • Violence • war • water scarcity • wildfires • Zimbabwe
• ISBN-10: 1-946395-62-5 / 1946395625
• ISBN-13: 978-1-946395-62-7 / 9781946395627