In the Silence : : International Fiction, Poetry, Essays, and Performance / / ed. by Frank Stewart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Aidii,,; Badkhen, Anna,; Bernardi, Claudia,; Bhalla, Alok,; Boris Diop, Boubacar,; Cour, Ajeet,; Daruwalla, Keki,; Day, Maung,; Dhoomil,,; Douglass, Frederick,; Eaindra,,; Edwards, Penny,; Filloux, Catherine,; Ju,,; Kou, Cao,; Kwar, Saw Phoe,; Kyaw Thein, Phyu Phyu,; Lambert, Saw,; Matthews, Joseph,; Mew, Charlotte,; Moe, Tin,; Myint, Aung Khin,; Myint, Nay Win,; Na, A Thi,; Narain, Kunwar,; Ngangom, Robin S.,; Padhi, Bibhu,; Padmanabhan, Manjula,; Pancake, Ann,; Pandora,,; Pash,,; Ramakrishnan, E. V,; Sandar, Ma,; Satchidanandan, K.,; Shania, Thida,; Shroff, Murzban F.,; Singh, Kedarnath,; Sone Win, Pyait,; Svoboda, Terese,; Thett, Ko Ko,; Tun, Ko Than,; Way, Moe,; White, Walter F.,; Win, K Za,; Wong, Kenneth,; Yu Py, Maung,; Zaw, Khin Min,
• HerausgeberIn: Stewart, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Mānoa ; 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 12 b&w illustrations

Here are the voices and visions from a world having need of an angel—most of all an angel of reality to help us see the Earth again, its people, and objects, to hear its tragic drone, and to recognize what it is to be human. The writing ranges from Burma/Myanmar to South Asia, China, Central America, Africa, and the U.S. From the oration of Frederick Douglass in the 1850s and the reportage of Walter F. White in the Jim Crow South during the 1920s. From the Apache genocide in the American Southwest, to the displacement of Rohingya in Burma, and the massacre of Tutsi in Rwanda. Despite the dark reality that the authors record, we recognize, as artist Claudia Bernardi says, “that life is worth living, no matter what.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Editor’s Note -- An angel passes by -- Forgiving the Unforgivable -- An Angel Passes By: Silence and Memories at the Massacre of El Mozote -- The Wall Builder -- How to Eat an Orange -- from Murambi: The Book of Bones -- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? -- from The Blast -- Three Poems -- Crow Season -- Four Poems -- Election Day in Florida -- South Asia -- Stand by Me: Song of a Farmer -- Dead End -- Three Poems -- He Chuckled Quietly -- Three Poems -- Six Poems -- Two Poems -- The Pain Merchant -- Two Poems -- The Darkest Word in the Dictionary -- Three Poems -- The Earth Shall Be Enjoyed By Heroes -- Three Poems -- Burma/Myanmar -- To Write a History -- Aphwar Sighted the Snake -- Living with a Warlock -- Ka Pi’s Dentures -- The Border Town -- Back in the Tall Grass -- Lily -- Interview with Kyaw Zwa Moe -- The Window -- Picnic -- On My Way Home -- Kaw Tha Wah the Hunter -- Watch out maung maung (there is such a thing as retribution) -- Coffee of the Gods -- The Venomous -- Land Mines -- War -- Insect in the Gala -- Mom Cooks Seven Rock Shrimps -- Biology -- An Ox for a Wad of Paan -- Three Poems -- Under the Great Ice Sheet -- About the Photographer -- About the Contributors -- Permissions