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I Speak for the Devil, Paperback / softback Book

I Speak for the Devil Paperback / softback

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Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales.

Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief.

She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books.

In I Speak for the Devil, the woman's body is a territory, a thing that is possessed, owned by herself or by another.

Her sequence They'll say, 'She must be from another country' traces a journey, starting with a striptease where the claims of nationality, religion and gender are cast off, to allow an exploration of new territories, the spaces between countries, cultures and religions.

The title-sequence speaks for the devil in acknowledging that in many societies women are respected, or listened to, only when they are carrying someone else inside their bodies - a child; a devil.

For some, to be "possessed" is to be set free.

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