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David Diop & Anna Moschovakis with Philippe Sands
When we imagine the experiences of those who fought in ‘The Great War’, whose perspective are we taking? Perhaps the majority of histories have taken a Eurocentric view. Not French-Senegalese author David Diop, whose unforgettable short novel At Night All Blood Is Black paints a starkly different picture of the brutal 1914-18 conflict. Anna Moschovakis is a translator who is fascinated by the spaces where ‘languages, forms and subjectivities meet’ and has brought Diop’s elegant, spare prose t…
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