Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every week.
We hope you enjoyed the last set of “staff picks” from The GOAT PoL. In our second edition we’ve got a new set of Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) amplifying texts that they
Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every week. With
Trained to be producers and consumers in a marketplace of literature, most writers don’t know how to be citizens of a polity. In the concluding essay of the Polity of Literature series the editor, Matthew Stadler, proposes an experiment to help us: The GOAT PoL (The Geopolitical Open Atlas of The Polity of Literature).
As an introduction to the work of Parwana Amiri, we’re republishing her story, “The Olive Tree and the Old Woman,” and making it available for sale from Publication Studio Guelph.
We seek to learn from the new, but it confuses and offends us. The editor of the Polity of Literature series, Matthew Stadler, reevaluates some key concepts of our project to better hear those from whom we all must learn—the oppressed.
Turkish artist Erkan Özgen documents a deaf, mute Syrian boy telling the story of what happened to him and others during the war in Syria.
This addendum to the 10th piece in the Polity of Literature series describes the unique challenges of queer refugees telling their stories to bureaucrats who do not understand them.
When refugees arrive in Europe they must tell their stories to state bureaucrats who control their fate. But is the state capable of hearing what they have to say?
Refugees are often treated like prisoners, yet their stories differ. The editor of the Polity of Literature series surveys recent and past books from both refugees and prisoners to discover the unique insights opened up when refugees begin to write and publish.
In the Terezín ghetto, near Prague, Jewish children later murdered by the Nazis created and shared their own secret “zines,” acting politically in the face of terror and impending death.
