If I Had the Wings: Short Stories by Klonaris, Helen

If I Had the Wings: Short Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845233464)

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Format: Paperback
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If I Had the Wings: Short Stories by Klonaris, Helen

If I Had the Wings: Short Stories

$17.95
If I Had the Wings: Short Stories by Klonaris, Helen

If I Had the Wings: Short Stories

$17.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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Growing up gay in the small Greek-Bahamian community, which feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat, is fraught with constraints and even danger. The main characters in Helen Klonaris's poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives. Yet there are also ways in which young women in several of the stories search for roots in that tradition - to find within it, alternatives to the dominant influence of the Orthodox church.

Author: Helen Klonaris
ISBN-10: 1845233468
ISBN-13: 9781845233464
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2017
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 09/26/2017
By Helen Klonaris
By Helen Klonaris
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Helen Klonaris is a Greek-Bahamian writer and teacher who lives between the Bay Area, California and Nassau, Bahamas. Her early years in the Bahamas were spent working as a human rights activist, raising awareness around issues that ranged from capital punishment to violence against women to discrimination against LGBT Bahamians. She co-founded several socially significant organizations, including The Rainbow Alliance of the Bahamas, and several literary journals, associations, and organizations including WomanSpeak: A Journal for Caribbean Women's Literature and Art, The Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies, (BACUS) and the Bahamas Writers Summer Institute (BWSI).

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