Silence of the Chagos

Silence of the Chagos
Author: Shenaz Patel
Publsiher: Restless Books
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781632062345

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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

Silence of the Chagos

Silence of the Chagos
Author: Shenaz Patel
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2019
Genre: British Indian Ocean Territory
ISBN: 1632062356

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The silence of Chagos

The silence of Chagos
Author: Elsa Engstrom
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Colonies
ISBN: OCLC:1430588990

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Le silence des Chagos

Le silence des Chagos
Author: Shenaz Patel
Publsiher: Média Diffusion
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2018-05-03T00:00:00+02:00
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9782823613377

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Le gardien du port connaît bien Charlesia. Elle passe régulièrement devant sa guérite et scrute l'horizon, dans l'attente vaine d'un bateau qui la ramènera chez elle. Diego Garcia, son île natale, n'est plus qu'un souvenir, celui d'une vie simple, rythmée par la production du coprah, les jeux des enfants, le seraz de poisson-banane et le séga du samedi soir. Depuis des années, Charlesia se heurte aux questions que lui pose un jeune homme. Désiré pourrait être son fils. Confronté au mystère de sa naissance, il découvre peu à peu le drame de ses parents, et de son entourage. Le Silence des Chagos, basé sur une histoire vraie, est un des rares livres à explorer cette tragédie méconnue : le drame intérieur des Chagossiens, leur déportation et leur existence de déracinés à l'île Maurice, depuis que Diego Garcia est devenue une base militaire américaine à la fin des années 1960. Édition augmentée d'une postface inédite de l'auteur.

The Mauritian Novel

The Mauritian Novel
Author: Julia Waters
Publsiher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781786949493

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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

Diego Garcia
Author: Natasha Soobramanien,Luke Williams
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2022-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781635901627

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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.

Profession 2011

Profession 2011
Author: Rosemary G. Feal
Publsiher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2014-01-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781603291293

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This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer, Robert Warrior, and Gillian L. Whitlock. The issue also features a section on evaluating digital scholarship. Introduced by Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, and Stephen Olsen, the section includes essays by Steve Anderson, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jerome McGann, Tara McPherson, Bethany Nowviskie, and Geoffrey Rockwell. The issue's other essays are by Reed Way Dasenbrock, Gillian Gane, Laurie Grobman, Joyce Kinkead, David Porter, and Richard Yarborough. The issue concludes with two sets of MLA guidelines--on professional employment practices for non-tenure-track faculty members and on evaluating translations as scholarship--and a listing of reports, surveys, statements, and other resources recently added to the MLA Web site.

The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation

The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation
Author: Thomas Burri,Jamie Trinidad
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781108841276

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Reflections on the ICJ's Chagos Advisory Opinion and its broader context: British colonialism, US military interests, and human rights violations.