Shenaz Patel

Apr 2, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Yilin Wang |Qiu Jin |Shenaz Patel |Nina Perrotta

Moonlight seeps into this tall pavilion.         The melancholy of longing, here and elsewhere. The autumn moon is a common motif within Chinese poetry, shining often upon geographies of homesickness and longing. In your poem, “Púsāmán: To a Female Friend,” written over a hundred and twenty years ago, the moon casts its light on a different kind of yearning—the search for a zhīyīn 知音.

Feb 28, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Shenaz Patel |Bora Chung |J. William Cally |Alexander Aguayo

This is the story of an overlooked book. Louis Timagène Houat’s Les Marrons can be deemed a tour de force—a work of great literary quality, as well as an exceptional testimony of nineteenth-century slavery in the Indian Ocean, revealing the struggle carried out within the colonies themselves, a struggle which would ultimately result in the abolition of slavery by the great colonizing powers.

Feb 23, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Huda Tayob |Shenaz Patel |trans Jeffrey Zuckerman |Kristina Rapacki

Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò’s Reconsidering Reparations argues that reparations for racial injustice and colonialism, as found in Shenaz Patel’s Silence of the Chagos, must take the form of imagining and constructing new just worlds Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò Oxford University Press, 2022 Silence of the Chagos by Shenaz Patel, trans Jeffrey Zuckerman Restless Books, 2019 Shenaz Patel’s novel, Silence of the Chagos, draws out the experiences of two Chagossians who were forcibly...

Aug 2, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Tahir Hamut Izgil |Shenaz Patel |Wesley Lewis

I was born at the very end of the 1960s in a poor, unattractive little settlement on the northwestern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. This settlement was a production brigade in the Peyzawat Land Reclamation Sector, which belonged to the third division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The production brigades in the sector were situated several kilometers from one another; traveling between bri­gades meant a trip down dirt roads through the desert.

May 22, 2023 | lemauricien.com | Shenaz Patel

Voilà donc un Premier ministre, celui de Maurice-c’est-un-plaisir, qui, lors de la séance de questions parlementaires cette semaine, a répondu à une question d’un député de son gouvernement en détaillant ce qui a été retrouvé lors de la perquisition au domicile de l’ancien Premier ministre, Navin Ramgoolam, en 2015. Des billets de banque, dollars américains, euros, livres sterling et autres, totalisant Rs 230 millions. Pour cela, l’ex-Premier ministre est poursuivi.