Literary Activism mission statements Amit Chaudhuri Full mission statements appear on the Literary Activism website. On Decolonisation (excerpt) The need for the kind of rethinking suggested by the word ‘decolonisation’ is urgentRead More…
Something sets us looking for a place.
For many minutes every day we lose
ourselves to somewhere else. …
‘Waist Bead Serenade’ This poem comes from D-Empress Dianne Regisford’s ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’. Highlight any portion of the text to annotate the passage with your own thoughts. It requires a certainRead More…
Extract from NW This extract comes from p. 182 of Zadie Smith’s NW. We’re interested in your reading experience. The text is fully annotatable: highlight any portion of the text to add yourRead More…
Extract from A God in Every Stone This extract comes from pp. 287–288 of Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone. We’re interested in your reading experience. Did any part of this passageRead More…
‘Rapinder Slips into Tongues . . .’ This poem is from Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover! (p. 30). It’s fully annotatable, so you can highlight any portion of the textRead More…
Extract from Black Mamba Boy This extract comes from pp. 1–2 of Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy. Feel free to highlight any portion of the text to annotate the passage with yourRead More…
Extract from The Memory of Love This extract comes from pp. 151–152 of Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love. Feel free to highlight any portion of the text to annotate the passageRead More…
Extract from The Emperor’s Babe This extract comes from p. 3 of Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (Penguin edition, 2002). The text is fully annotatable: highlight any portion to add your own thoughts.Read More…