Untold Microcosms

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Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves.

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SKU: 9781913867270 Category: Tags: , , Publisher/imprint : Charco Press
Page count : 250
Published on 6th September, 2022

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The Central and South American collection at the British Museum collections contains approximately 62,000 objects, spanning 10,000 years of human history. The vast majority cannot be displayed, and those objects are the subject of Untold Microcosms, a collection of ten stories from ten Latin American writers, and inspired by the narratives about our past that we create through museums, in spite of their gaps and disarticulations.Featuring new original works by: Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Zárate, Juan Cárdenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Dolores Reyes, Carlos Fonseca, Djamila Ribeiro.

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Weight 0.204 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 13 × 1.3 cm
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