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\u201cThe Rage Letters <\/i>is a daring and jubilant work that details the nuanced textures of queer friendship with a discerning, humorous, and powerful voice. Bah is a storyteller like no other.\u201d
\n\u2014Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Quill & Quire<\/em><\/a>, starred review<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/i>The stories … address themes of class, race, gender, and sexuality from the perspective of a queer, Black sensibility. The individual entries are linked by characters that drift in and out among them and by Bah and La Mackerel\u2019s insistence on defamiliarizing \u2013 or, to use La Mackerel\u2019s preferred term, \u2018creolizing\u2019 \u2013 the language. These are stories that exist in the interstices between linguistic, gender, and class groupings.\u201d
\n\u2014Steven Beattie, That Shakespearean Rag
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\u201cThe Rage Letters <\/i>is an invitation to sit with complexity and to savour the intricate ways people come together to bring about an atmosphere of unfurling possibility.\u201d
\n\u2014Samantha Jones, This Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMy intention was to write stories, construct riddles around liberation. How does someone in a very banal, realist scenario unlock something that gives them more space, or how do they get to see themselves in the front seat?\u201d
\n\u2014Val\u00e9rie Bah, en entrevue avec le journal litt\u00e9raire Montreal Review of Books Montreal Review of Books<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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\u201cRendered in incendiary prose, The Rage Letters<\/em> is a striking collection of linked stories which astutely and with swift humour explores the lives, identities, relationships, and furies of its characters. Grounded in the enchanting grit of Montreal and elsewhere, these stories take playful and surprising slants as their Black, queer, and trans characters navigate familiar realities with fortitude and, at times, joy.\u201d
\n\u2014Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread<\/em><\/p>\n

Autaire: Val\u00e9rie Bah<\/a><\/p>\n

Traductrice: Kama La Mackerel<\/a><\/p>\n

Couverture et design : CP Simonise<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

de Val\u00e9rie Bah, traduit du fran\u00e7ais par Kama La Mackerel<\/p>\n

Automne 2023<\/p>\n

Finaliste, prix Lambda Literary de la fiction transgenre<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disponible en format papier (pour les personnes r\u00e9sidant au Canada et aux \u00c9tats-Unis), PDF (disponible partout), et EPUB (disponible partout)<\/p>\n

Un agent de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00e9puis\u00e9 r\u00eave de rentrer chez lui. Une sculpteure et un\u00b7e poteux\u00b7se font l\u2019amour en compagnie d\u2019un groupe d\u2019ex-flammes en cire. Un atelier sur la diversit\u00e9 prend des allures de cauchemar familier.<\/p>\n

Tout au long de ce recueil pince-sans-rire, des figures r\u00e9solues, damn\u00e9es et triomphantes apparaissent et r\u00e9apparaissent, leurs liens devenant de plus en plus clairs au fil de la narration fragment\u00e9e. L\u2019auteure dresse avec l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9 le portrait des vies entrem\u00eal\u00e9es d\u2019un groupe d\u2019ami\u00b7es noir\u00b7es, queer et trans qui \u00e9voluent au gr\u00e9 de la violence sociale, des traumatismes et des contradictions qui caract\u00e9risent leur situation.<\/p>\n

D\u2019abord publi\u00e9 en fran\u00e7ais en 2021 aux \u00c9ditions du remue-m\u00e9nage dans le cadre de la collection Martiales, The Rage Letters de Val\u00e9rie Bah pr\u00e9sente des r\u00e9cits The Rage Letters<\/i> qui se d\u00e9roulent \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al et ailleurs. Parfois concises et souvent conversationnelles, mais toujours porteuses de possibilit\u00e9s \u00e0 travers le d\u00e9sir, la rage et les actes de r\u00e9bellion de leurs personnages.<\/p>\n

Val\u00e9rie Bah<\/strong> est une cin\u00e9aste et \u00e9crivaine bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Tiohti\u00e0:ke dont le travail explore des th\u00e8mes de traumatisme interg\u00e9n\u00e9rationnel et de gu\u00e9rison, ainsi que les actes de survie tant ordinaires que radicaux. Empreints de r\u00e9alisme magique, les r\u00e9cits de Val s\u2019inspirent de la pens\u00e9e f\u00e9ministe noire et de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience v\u00e9cue.<\/p>\n

Kama La Mackerel<\/strong> est un\u00b7e \u00e9ducataire, artiste, performaire, \u00e9crivain\u00b7e et traductaire dont la pratique existe \u00e0 l\u2019intersection de l\u2019anglais, du fran\u00e7ais et du kreol morisien. Iel est l\u2019autaire du recueil de po\u00e9sie ZOM-FAM<\/i> (\u00c9ditions Metonymy) et a traduit des \u0153uvres des \u00e9crivaines canadiennes Vivek Shraya et Kai Cheng Thom. Iel a donn\u00e9 des conf\u00e9rences, s\u2019est produit sur la sc\u00e8ne et a expos\u00e9 son travail \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle. Kama est pr\u00e9sent\u00b7e sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux sous l\u2019appellation @kamalamackerel.
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