Reading Envy 079: Deliberately Silenced and Preferably Unheard

Rima Abunasser is a late-night guest to the Reading Envy pub. Jenny and Rima have traded book recommendations for years in social media, and it was nice to have a longer conversation about international literature, revolution, female voices, and how students respond to first-time exposure to some of these topics in her classes.

Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 079: Deliberately Silenced and Preferably Unheard.

The title to this episode comes from the following quote from Arundhati Roy, from The 2004 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture:

"We know of course there's really no such thing as the 'voiceless.' There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." 

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Books featured:



The Dewbreaker by Edwidge Danticat
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz

Other mentions:

Stanford prison experiment
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Hamitic myth
The Uncondemned (film)
"The Clan of One-Breasted Women" by Terry Tempest Williams
Arabic Literature in English (blog)
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
10 Books by Arab Women Writers That Should Be Translated (LitHub)

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