Untold Microcosms : Latin American Writers in the British Museum by Carolina Orloff

Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves. Featuring new original works by: Y?snaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Z?rate, Juan C?rdenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela Cabez?n C?mara, Dolores Reyes, Carlos Fonseca,?Djamila RibeiroThe Central and South American collection at the British Museum?collections contains approximately 62,000 objects,?spanning 10,000 years of human history. The vast majority cannot be displayed, and those objects are the subject of Untold Microcosms , a collection of ten stories from ten Latin American writers, and inspired by the narratives about our past that we create through museums, in spite of their gaps and disarticulations.
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