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The theme of these stories is disruption and I as a reader felt a strong sense of dislocation and an awareness that the writers' life experiences were far removed from my own. The introduction tells the story of how this anthology was delayed a year because of the ravages of covid-19. It drove home to me the health and social and cultural and economic costs of this world-wide pandemic, and how unevenly these costs have been distributed across our globe. The stories themselves? They weren't writt...
Really enjoyed this collection of stories from across Africa, almost all of which took the theme of “disruption” to explore the climate crisis, in very different styles and voices. Quirky and imaginative and unsettling. Anthologies are always a mixed bag, but the average quality of these stories is very good
This review first appeared in The Continent, Issue 77, March 5, 2022.Disruption is an anthology from Short Story Day Africa, chosen from submissions to its annual competition from around the continent. This year’s anthology has been published as an e-book, featuring stories on the theme of disruption –… especially but not limited to climate and environ[mental] disruption.The result is a wonderful collection of stories, ranging from the tale of a girl who gathers rivers in her body, in The Girl N...
A great showcase anthology for the many hugely talented writers whose stories were selected! Short Story Day Africa 2021 brings together a collection of emotionally charged and disturbing stories that have an eerie feel of prescience about them. It's a brilliant title and the cover artwork is fantastical and beautiful but it did make me expect/want (as one of the other reviewers mentioned) a broader sweep of plots/a greater variety of 'disruption' preoccupations and themes. Many of the stories w...
Really enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. Strong voices & unique interpretations.
trigger warning(view spoiler)[ trauma, grief, torture, suicide, flood, earthquake, draught, stillborn child, mention of miscarriage, sexual harassment, starvation, misogyny, racism, infertility, death by fire, rape, human trafficking, being orphaned, genocide, kidnapping (hide spoiler)]While the topic of this short story anthology was very loose, somehow, most of the contributors wound up writing about a climate crisis. Some are about the planet Earth as a whole, while others are about single pe...
