Not So Stories
English
By (author): Adiwijaya Iskandar Cassandra Khaw Georgina Kamsika Joseph Elliott-Coleman Paul Krueger Raymond Gates Stewart Hotston Tauriq Moosa Zina Hutton
Once upon a time, Rudyard Kiplings Just So Storiesfantastical yarns of wondrous creatures in faraway placesbewitched children across the world. But times change. Today, Kiplings writing tells us a different tale; of a love of Empire, and the troubling legacy of British colonialism.
In Not So Stories, writers of colour from around the world reclaim these stories and remake them into something new. Something different. Something that belongs to us all.
Including stories by Adiwijaya Iskandar, Joseph Elliott-Coleman, Raymond Gates, Stewart Hotston, Zina Hutton, Georgina Kamsika, Cassandra Khaw, Paul Krueger, Tauriq Moosa, Jeannette Ng, Ali Nouraei, Wayne Santos, Zedeck Siew and Achala Upendran, with illustrations by Woodrow Phoenix and a foreword by Nikesh Shukla. See more