Overview
Beyond the Moon is an intimate collection of poetry about enormous stigma, Otherness and marginality, detailing with my personal experiences as a young woman living on the cusp of two very different worlds. As a young girl growing up in the United Kingdom. I was continually made aware of my ethnic differences. The conventional Western education made no allusion to the Mauritian Muslim; I found no commonplace, no companionship with another in this world, no one like me. Even I deceived myself with the expectation to normalise and acclimatise to the Barbie doll model. I was taught that I was not beautiful because I did not resemble this traditional model. Thus, this collection of poetry materialises and communicates such experiences, exploring the 'dark side of the moon'.
- | Author: Shanaz Hosany
- | Publisher: Austin Macauley
- | Publication Date: Jun 23, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 56 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1035807491
- | ISBN-13: 9781035807499
