Description: Raw and radical, unfamiliar and beguiling - a journey through Britain's breathtaking flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories contained in those landscapes Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooperate with the human gaze. They reflect her inner world- the 'flat place' she carries inside herself, emotional numbness and memory loss as symptoms of childhood trauma. But as much as the landscape provides solace for this suffering, Britain's flatlands are also uneasy places for a Scottish-Pakistani woman, representing both an inheritance and a dispossession. Pursuing this paradox across the wide open plains that she loves, Noreen weaves her impressions of the natural world with the poetry, folklore and history of the land, and with recollections of her own early life, rendering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate account of a post-traumatic, post-colonial landscape - a seemingly flat and motionless place which is nevertheless defiantly alive.
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EAN: 9780241544051
UPC: 9780241544051
ISBN: 9780241544051
MPN: N/A
Format: Hardback, 240 pages
Author: Masud, Noreen
Book Title: A Flat Place by Masud, Noreen
Item Height: 2.5 cm
Item Length: 22.2 cm
Item Weight: 0.31 kg
Item Width: 14.4 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
