RewritingTheCanon

A year-long reading course celebrating Writers of Colour devised by @sharlovegrove @dialoguebooks hosted by @galdemzine @LibertyLondon #RewritingTheCanon

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A final tweet to say thank you and goodbye (for a while) to the #RewritingtheCanon class of 2018/2019 ✌🏿

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And #ThingsFallApart is a perfect perfect novel #RewritingtheCanon

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And #Beloved is a firm forever favourite #RewritingtheCanon

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Also shouting out #Passing, #GiovannisRoom for their intense discussions and fierce agreement and debate #RewritingtheCanon

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Slightly less love for a few others . . . #RewritingtheCanon

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A LOT of love for #ADifferentDrummer and #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod and #TheLeavers and #SecondClassCitizen #RewritingtheCanon

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Breaking the fourth wall of Twitter because this session is everything! It’s hard to tweet. We have cute babies, processco, tea (🙃), and now we’re tallying our fave and least fave books on the course #RewritingtheCanon

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The course may be ending but @SharLovegrove is of course still recommending books and has said the one book she’s excited for everyone to read is #AmericanSpy, published by @dialoguebooks on the 4th July #RewritingtheCanon

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In the idea of generational trauma, what precipitates it? #RewritingtheCanon #Beloved

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#Beloved probes so deeply and forces you to engage with the narrative. It’s intense #RewritingtheCanon

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Back to #Beloved it’s so so difficult to read, watch and take in these slave narratives and how harrowing but important they are #RewritingtheCanon

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One highlight from the course has been the #Teacake debate from our #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod session. @kuchengcheng called him the ‘Chris Brown of the literary world’ #dontsue

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Tonight is the last session of the first #RewritingtheCanon programme and we’re reading #Beloved. So they’ll definitely be tears either way. 😭

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How central is empathy to good storytelling? #MeatlessDays #RewritingtheCanon

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Or maybe #MeatlessDays needs you to be a different kind of reader? Not so immersed in the feelings, paying attention to the turn of phrase and the humour on the surface #RewritingtheCanon

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Does #MeatlessDays feel like reading academic prose? And is that why it feels so far removed from the storyteller #RewritingtheCanon

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But what was up with all of the burning? #MeatlessDays #RewritingtheCanon

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But maybe that was a detachment from the tragedy #RewritingtheCanon #MeatlessDays

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Some people in the #RewritingtheCanon session think her storytelling was too cold, clinical and we didn’t really get to the core of the writer #MeatlessDays

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Some people in the #RewritingtheCanon session think her storytelling was too cold, clinical and we didn’t really get to the core of the writer #MeatlessDays