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Untold Microcosms

Latin American Writers in the British Museum

Carolina Orloff editor Sophie Hughes editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Charco Press

Published:6th Sep '22

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Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves.

Featuring new original works by: Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Zárate, Juan Cárdenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Dolores Reyes, Carlos Fonseca, Djamila Ribeiro

The Central and South American collection at the British Museum collections contains approximately 62,000 objects, spanning 10,000 years of human history. The vast majority cannot be displayed, and those objects are the subject of Untold Microcosms , a collection of ten stories from ten Latin American writers, and inspired by the narratives about our past that we create through museums, in spite of their gaps and disarticulations.

ISBN: 9781913867270

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151 pages