Seeking Asylum, Speaking Silence
“How could she ever put those terrible pictures into words?” (Naidoo, Truth 51). This question is at the heart of Beverley Naidoo’s The Other Side of Truth (2000), which narrates the trauma of Nigerian asylum seeker children Sade and Femi as they flee to Britain. Speech and silence are ambivalent wi...
Main Author: | Helen King |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Danish |
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Svenska Barnboksinstitutet
2020-06-01
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Series: | Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning |
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Online Access: | https://barnboken.net/index.php/clr/article/view/493 |
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