It lives on as a drumming in your head.”- Maria Tumarkin, author of Axiomatic Instead it breaks sentences and pages open, makes language rush into you (you are an estuary, the dam is gone). It tries to convince no one of nothing, to confess nothing to no one. “This searing abolitionist work sees, and refuses, other prisons too – of narrative-for-hire, racial shame, the trauma industrial complex, cause and effect. "Evolving a not-yet-existent form, Taneja weaves a mesmerising blend of recollection, theory, aphorism, poetry and, yes, fact."- Irish Times Its achievement lies in its generosity and intimacy.”- Los Angeles Review of Books “ Aftermath is a book of extraordinary heart and intellectual force that probes the power of trauma and interrogates the ideologically inflected meanings of terrorism. turns a critical lens toward the way language shapes violence, suggesting that 'power tells a story to sustain itself, it has no empathy for those it harms.' This poetic, urgent, and self-reflective work will delight fans of Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.”- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
#Aftermath book series#
Blurring genre and form, Aftermath is a profound attempt to regain trust after violence and to recapture a politics of hope through a determined dream of abolition.Īftermath is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books. Contending with the pain of unspeakable loss set against public tragedy, she draws on history, memory, and powerful poetic predecessors to reckon with the systemic nature of atrocity. In this searching lament by the award-winning author of We That Are Young, Taneja interrogates the language of terror, trauma and grief the fictions we believe and the voices we exclude. “’I am living at the centre of a wound still fresh.’ The I is not only mine. “It is the immediate aftermath,” Taneja writes. Merritt oversaw her program Khan was one of her students. Preti Taneja taught fiction writing in prison for three years. That day, he killed two people: Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt. Then he went to the restroom to retrieve the things he had hidden there: a fake bomb vest and two knives, which he taped to his wrists.
On November 29, 2019, he sat with others at Fishmongers’ Hall, some of whom he knew. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event marking the fifth anniversary of a prison education program he participated in. Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offenses at age 20, and sent to high-security prison.
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