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Collen, Lindsey. THE RAPE of SITA. 1995. Heinemann Publishers. UK.
It starts with a poem full of questions that resonated in my thoughts as I read this wonderful story and forced me to examine my own behaviour and actions.
“What action for you
...Will this act
Would be moral
Make history progress
Would be true
Or allow us
Would be good
To slip back
Would be right?
Into the mud of the past?...”
Recently I ´met´ Lindsey Collen on a conference call and although I knew her interesting letters in New Internationalist, I was not aware of her novels. I immediately found Read more [...]
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Collen, Lindsey. MUTINY. 2002. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, UK.
This is another gripping story of women from the Mauritian writer of The Rape of Sita. If that book was in lush forest colours, this tense drama, set in a prison as cyclones approach, is stark black and white overshadowed by a sky of deep intense mauve of the impending tempest. The tension builds inside as the cyclone nears outside.
Three women are thrown together in a gaol cell. At first, suspicious and unfriendly to each other, they gradually develop friendship and support. They talk about their varied experiences; not too different from Read more [...] Comments Off on Collen, Lindsey. MUTINY. 2002. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, UK.
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