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Quinlivan, Davina

 
9780715656044: Possessions: A Memoir of Transformation in an Era of Precarity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 071565604X ISBN 13: 9780715656044
Verlag: Duckworth Books, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

'I was so thirsty for the prize of academia, so thrilled to defy the fates, that I suffocated my own history and culture, my Burmese heritage and my mother's language. By doing this, I also possessed my ancestors and made them dance to the tune of Imperialism. How could I be so wrong?'

After two decades of academic research and undergraduate teaching Davina Quinlivan, and the world of university education, were approaching crisis; teaching online, ticking boxes for other people's diversity criteria, stuck, like so many others, in a cycle of fixed term contracts. Yet as a child of Anglo-Burmese parents, growing up in West London, academia had promised a way out. Something better.

This is her powerful, compelling story of fragmenting and rebuilding from the inside out, one that is filled with the voices of both Burma and Southall. Haunted by the ghosts of colonialism, Davina Quinlivan beautifully lays bare our blind spots as we grapple with decolonisation and the hypocrisies within our institutions of education.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Davina Quinlivan is a research fellow at the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. For several years she has run F: For Flanerie, a series of writing and film seminars at The Freud Museum. She is also Artistic Lead with Paper Nations, an award-winning creative writing incubator funded by Arts Council England. Her writing has appeared widely, and she is the author of Shalimar (Little Toller).

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Verlag
Duckworth Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
071565604X
ISBN 13 
9780715656044
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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