Three writers explore art, resistance, and survival under oppressive regimes. Jeremy Tiang (State of Emergency) follows the political upheavals of Singapore and Malaysia from the 1940s to the present through the intertwined lives of one family; Emmelie Prophète (Cécé) captures the stark realities of a young woman navigating gang-controlled neighborhoods and violence in contemporary Haiti; and Canisia Lubrin (Code Noir: Fictions) transforms the infamous 17th-century French slave code—once used to define and regulate slavery in the French colonies—into fifty-nine genre-bending stories. Moderated by translator and poet Aidan Rooney.
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