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A Reckoning: Gender Violence in Mauritian Life and Literature by Ariel Saramandi

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By Ariel Saramandi Verified
| Wasafiri Magazine Verified
Ariel Saramandi explores and decries the patriarchal abuses of power behind the Mauritian literary scene, centring Nathacha Appanah's groundbreaking book, La nuit au cœur, and her and other Mauritian women writers' engagements with violence against women, confinement, and carcerality on the island. Where femicide and paedophila remain major issues for the country, Saramandi looks toward how effective feminist shifts can continue to take hold in the future.
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Of Portraits, Mirrors, and Windows

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By Ariel Saramandi Verified, Vedita Cowaloosur
| The India Forum
I read Ariel Saramandi’s Portrait of an Island on Fire against a backdrop of daily news headlines that signalled a mounting global bedlam. Humanitarian crises continued to wreak havoc in Sudan, Ukraine, and Gaza, now in its third year of war, with a death toll exceeding 70,000 people. Political tensions and violent crackdowns on protest and dissenting voices intensified in Iran, Bangladesh, and Haiti. Climate disasters fuelled extreme food crises in Somalia.
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The Future of Climate Change Is on Mauritius — The Dial

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By Ariel Saramandi Verified
| The Dial
¶ Port Louis January 2021: I worked here over a decade ago. I must negotiate the capital’s streets differently now, my body adjusting to this new heat. My shoes abrade my feet and my shirt is stuck to my back. I slick the sweat running from my forehead back into my ponytail. When I arrive at the National Library my feet feel like they’re sloshing in their own blood. To get to the city center I use an underpass, which now closes at the merest sign of torrential rain.
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