Tag: politics

  • The Journey to America: 6 Authors Offer their Stories about Immigration

    Written by Christie Basson No human is an island, and neither should they be expected to be. No matter the genre or the style of a writer, it is impossible that they could write in isolation from their past or from the world roaring around them. The political or social commentary might be more nuanced…

  • Shailja Patel’s Migritude: Poetry in Motion

    Written by Katelyn Connolly Migritude is a text obsessed with movement. The content of Shailja Patel’s striking work of poetic theatre, first staged in 2006 and published in book form in 2010, is a meditation on the history, politics, and emotion of migration. Her story moves across Africa, Europe. and North America. Its form is…