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The State is Your Enemy
Essays on Liberation and Racial Justice
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This book is suited for readers interested in politics, human rights, and revolutionary thought, particularly those who seek a critical perspective on government oppression both historically and in contemporary contexts.
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Drawing parallels between atrocities committed against the Kurds by the Turkish State and the racist police brutality, and government-sanctioned murders in the UK, James Kelman shatters the myth of Western exceptionalism. He reveals the universality of terror campaigns levied against the most vulnerable, calling on a global citizenship to stand in solidarity with victims of oppression.
The State is Your Enemy presents Kelman's case against the Turkish and British governments not just as a litany of murders or an impassioned plea, but as a cool-headed takedown of the State. This work serves as an essential primer for revolutionaries.
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Critical reception highlights Kelman as a transformative and influential literary figure. Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain, praises Kelman for profoundly changing his life. The Times considers him perhaps the most influential novelist since the war, while Esquire (London) commends his ability to capture the lyricism of everyday speech. The Sunday Herald calls him the greatest British novelist of our time, and Irvine Welsh in the Guardian labels him a true original and real artist. The Scotsman views him as a writer of world stature and a 21st-century Modernist.
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ISBN: 9781629639680
Publisher: PM Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 September 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: PM Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 204.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 192
About the Author
James Kelman was born in Glasgow, June 1946, and left school in 1961. He began work in the printing trade then moved around, working in various jobs in various places. He was living in England when he started writing: ramblings, musings, sundry phantasmagoria. He committed to it and kept at it. In 1969 he met and married Marie Connors from South Wales. They settled in Glasgow and still live in the dump, not far from their kids and grandkids. He still plugs away at the ramblings, musings, politicking and so on, supported by the same lady.
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