If I Had the Wings
If I Had the Wings
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Summary
Helen Klonaris is a Bahamian writer of Greek descent who grew up on the island of New Providence, Bahamas. In her mid-thirties she left the Bahamas to live in the Bay Area, California where she writes and teaches mythology and creative writing at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. This is her first collection.
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If I Had the Wings by Helen Klonaris
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.
Helen Klonaris is a Greek-Bahamian writer and teacher who lives between the Bay Area, California and Nassau, Bahamas. Her nonfiction and fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies including Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writings, edited by Thomas Glave, Caribbean Erotic, edited by Opal Palmer Adisa and Donna Weir, Let's Tell This Story Properly, edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories, edited by Martin Munro, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers and the Life of the Mind, edited by Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda. Most recently, her short story "Cowboy" was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Helen is the co-editor with Amir Rabiyah of the anthology Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices, published by Trans-Genre Press, 2015.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781845233464 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845233468 |
| Title | If I Had the Wings |
| Author | Helen Klonaris |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peepal Tree Press Ltd. |
| Year published | 2017-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |