{"id":1689,"date":"2019-08-18T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T11:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/?page_id=1689"},"modified":"2020-11-15T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T11:45:15","slug":"unearthed-by-yvette-gresle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/unearthed-by-yvette-gresle\/","title":{"rendered":"Unearthed by Yvette Gresl\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"post-1698 media-1698\" class=\"align-center\">\n<figure id=\"post-1713 media-1713\" class=\"align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/UE_cover_RGB_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"post-1718 media-1718\" class=\"align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/unearthed-spread_2-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I grew up with the ordinariness of the colonial order of things and the banality of apartheid in the spaces where other whites, like me, lived &#8230;&#8217;\u00a0<em>Unearthed<\/em> demonstrates<em>, <\/em>through a weave of time and place \u2013 be it then or now, the Seychelles, Johannesburg or London \u2013 how the \u2018ordinariness\u2019 of prejudice and violence persists. Raising memory from burden to force, this book pulls you in and takes you to an understanding of why it is important to speak.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Yvette Gresl\u00e9 manages what many cannot \u2013 she reclaims memory without falling prey to sentimentality. Achingly spare, <\/em>Unearthed<em> is a\u00a0haunting catalogue of remembrance, an unflinching and melancholic examination of racism and privilege.\u2019<\/em> Sisonke Msimang<\/p>\n<p>Yvette Gresl\u00e9 is a writer and art historian based in London. Her endeavours relate to the transformative and political possibilities of the moving image and writing as memory work.\u00a0She is a Research Associate with the University of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 31 October 2019<br \/>\nFormat: 130mm x 195mm<br \/>\nPaperback Extent: 96pp<br \/>\nPrices: \u00a310<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-909570-06-1<br \/>\nTrade Distribution: Central Books Ltd<\/p>\n<p><strong>Available to purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/product\/unearthed\/\">from Copy Press <\/a> or your local bookshop<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>For an ethical alternative to Amazon we recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/unearthed-9781909570061\/9781909570061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8216;I grew up with the ordinariness of the colonial order of things and the banality of apartheid in the spaces where other whites, like me, lived &#8230;&#8217;\u00a0Unearthed demonstrates, through a weave of time and place \u2013 be it then or now, the Seychelles, Johannesburg or London \u2013 how the \u2018ordinariness\u2019 of prejudice and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.copypress.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}