![]() ![]() The womxn who inhabit its pages seem to say, ‘ Here we are, as inspiring and flawed and heterogenous as everyone else, and our bonds are stronger and our stories more fascinating because of it’. And in this fluidity, lies the possibility of togetherness. But identity and otherness are not fixed but layered and contested categories. Questions of Identity, otherness and togetherness define their stories. Grace Nichols, I Is a Long Memoried Woman (1983)Įvaristo’s protagonists are a diverse bunch, full of contradictions. It is a joyful counterpoint to the near invisibility of womxn of colour in literary productions-both as authors and as their fictional creations. ![]() ![]() Within these pages are, not one but twelve black British womxn, all scripting their own individual stories within Evaristo’s master narrative. It is a book that puts presence back into absence. Womxn of unheard voices and unsung praises are at the heart of Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel ‘ Girl, Woman, Other’. ![]()
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