The restitution of dignity: Photography, resistance and her-stories in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King’, in: Philosophy of Photography, 17.1 (2026) online first: doi.org/10.1386/pop_...
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#MaazaMengiste is truly amazing, beautiful inside and out, as well as a fantastically talented writer. Her talk this evening was insightful and moving.
Watch out for her next novel: "A Brief History of Small Deaths" ✨️
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 24
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Hirut stares at the sunlit vista
pressing itself
through the swinging doors.
As they start to close,
she holds her breath.
Addis Ababa shrinks to a sliver
and slips out of the room.
- The Shadow King,
Maaza Mengiste
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