Colonial Countryside: Creative and Historical Responses - Creative and Historical Responses

Colonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India.
Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each creative commission was based. The book ends with a photo essay by the project's commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard, the Turner Prize shortlisted artist who has pioneered critical interventions into the supposed whiteness of the British countryside.

Summary

Colonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories.

Product details

• Authors: Andre Bagoo, Peter Kalu, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Hannah Lowe, Malachi McIntosh, Seni Seneviratne, Mahsuda Snaith, Maria Thomas
• Assisted by: Corinne Fowler (Editor), Jeremy Poynting (Editor)
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781845235666
• ISBN: 978-1-84523-566-6
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 233 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 402 g
• Illustrations: Photo Esssay by Ingrid Persaud
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature