Le Silence Des Chagos
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Silence Of The Chagos
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Author : Shenaz Patel
language : en
Publisher: Restless Books
Release Date : 2019-11-05
Silence Of The Chagos written by Shenaz Patel and has been published by Restless Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Fiction categories.
Based on a true, still-unfolding story, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural identity, the concept of home, and above all the neverending desire for justice. Shenaz Patel draws on the lives of exiled Chagossians in this tragic example of 20th century political oppression. Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze “back there”: to Diego Garcia, one of the small islands forming the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean. With no explanation, no forewarning, and only an hour to pack their belongings, the Chagossians are deported to Mauritius. Officials tell her that the island is “closed”— there is no going back for any of them. Charlesia longs for life on Diego Garcia, where the days were spent working on a coconut plantation; the nights dancing to sega music. As she struggles to come to terms with her new reality, Charlesia crosses paths with Désiré, a young man born on the one-way journey to Mauritius. Désiré has never set foot on Diego Garcia, but as Charlesia unfolds the dramatic story of his people, he learns of the home he never knew and the disrupted future of his people. With the sovereignty of Chagos currently being debated on an international judiciary level, Silence of the Chagos is an important and timely examination of the rights of individuals in the face of governmental corruption. Praise for Silence of the Chagos: “Some twenty years ago, I was struck by a photo showing barefoot women on the road facing the armed police. They were Chagossian women protesting in Mauritius with astonishing determination.” This photo, which she's never forgotten, is the inspiration for the Mauritian novelist and journalist Shenaz Patel's third book. Mingling various voice, Patel describes, in a bitter, clear-cut style, the tragedy of the inhabitants of the Chagos, those coral islands of the Indian Ocean that were turned into an American military base and whose inhabitants had been banished to Mauritius between 1967 and 1972. With a prose that seeps and stings, and a sharp sensibility, Shenaz Patel breathes life into the painful nostalgia, the lingering memories, and the eternal incomprehension of these expelled from a string of lost islands.” —Le Monde “This novel has two voices, those of Charlesia and Désiré, both of whom are foreigners, natives of the Chagos archipelago, living in exile in Mauritius, an island that is a paradise for some but a hell for them. The Chagos are an archipelago that would have been hidden in the depths of the Indian Ocean, had Americans not built a military base to bombard other countries. Charlesia and Désiré live and breathe; the Mauritian writer Shenaz Patel introduces us to them and gives them voice again.” —Libération “From scenes of daily life to the horrors of forced exile, through the grief of deculturation and the experience of an impossible identity, Patel interrogates the relationship between political expediency and its all-too-human consequences, between the abstract needs of international security and the concrete needs of the individual, and above all between the rich and the poor.” —L'Express
Le Silence Des Chagos
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Author : Shenaz Patel
language : fr
Publisher: Editions de l'Olivier
Release Date : 2005
Le Silence Des Chagos written by Shenaz Patel and has been published by Editions de l'Olivier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with British Indian Ocean Territory categories.
A Port-Louis, sur l'île Maurice, Charlesia Garcia scrute l'horizon. Elle sait pourtant qu'aucun bateau ne la ramenera dans l'archipel des Chagos où il faisait si bon vivre, et dont elle, son mari et beaucoup d'autres ont été explusés dans les années 60. De son côté, Georges Désiré, né en 1973 sur le dernier bateau parti des Chagos, découvre le drame de ses parents et de son entourage.
Silence Of The Chagos
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Author : Shenaz Patel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Silence Of The Chagos written by Shenaz Patel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with British Indian Ocean Territory categories.
The Mauritian Novel
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Author : Julia Waters
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-08
The Mauritian Novel written by Julia Waters and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book analyses how the idea – or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary ‘politics of belonging’ in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.
Diego Garcia
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Author : Natasha Soobramanien
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-06-21
Diego Garcia written by Natasha Soobramanien and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-21 with Fiction categories.
Sad and funny and bitter and true, a novel about grief, discovering your own story, and trying to listen for those stories that are not yours to tell. August 2014. Two friends, writers Damaris Caleemootoo and Oliver Pablo Herzberg, arrive in Edinburgh from London, the city that killed Daniel—his brother, her frenemy and loved by them both. Every day is different but the same. Trying to get to the library, they get distracted by bickering—will it rain or not and what should they do about their tanking bitcoin?—in the end failing to write or resist the sadness which follows them as they drift around the city. On such a day they meet Diego, a poet. They learn that Diego’s mother was from the Chagos Archipelago, that she and her community were forced to leave their ancestral islands by soldiers in 1973 to make way for a military base. They become obsessed with this notorious episode in British history and the continuing resistance of the Chagossian people, and feel urged to write in solidarity. But how to share a story that is not theirs to tell? Sad, funny and angry, this collaborative fiction builds on the true fact of another: a collaborative fiction created by the British and US governments to dispossess a people of their homeland.
Africa In The Indian Ocean
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Author : Tor Sellström
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-05-26
Africa In The Indian Ocean written by Tor Sellström and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-26 with History categories.
Tor Sellström profiles the independent island states and the European dependencies in the African part of the Indian Ocean, their contemporary social, political and economic challenges, the wider international context and their relations with, in particular, Africa and the African Union.
Life And A Half
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Author : Sony Labou Tansi
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2011
Life And A Half written by Sony Labou Tansi and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
This crisp translation by Alison Dundy maintains the fast-paced action and bitingly satiric tone of the original.
United States And Britain In Diego Garcia
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Author : P. Sand
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-07-06
United States And Britain In Diego Garcia written by P. Sand and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-06 with Political Science categories.
Diego Garcia is a pivotal US base for all Middle East operations. This book describes its evolution from a secret US-UK bilateral deal in 1966 and the deportation of the native population in the 70s to its new role in Guantánamo-style 'renditions' and the impact of miltary construction on its environment.
Security And Democracy In Southern Africa
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Author : Gavin Cawthra
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 2007
Security And Democracy In Southern Africa written by Gavin Cawthra and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Southern Africa has embarked on one of the world's most ambitious security co-operation initiatives, seeking to roll out the principles of the United Nations at regional levels. This book examines the triangular relationship between democratisation, the character of democracy and its deficits, and national security practices and perceptions of eleven southern African states. It explores what impact these processes and practices have had on the collaborative security project in the region. Based on national studies conducted by African academics and security practitioners over three years, it includes an examination of the way security is conceived and managed, as well as a comparative analysis of regional security co-operation in the developing world.
First Footsteps In East Africa Or An Exploration Of Harar
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Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
First Footsteps In East Africa Or An Exploration Of Harar written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Harar, Africa categories.