For the Unnamed by Fred D'Aguiar Lesbian alternative reality

alternative reality

in surprising ways

Starting with Looking through Letterboxes in 2002 when she was fifteen years old

then reading "Three Docklands fragments" against a display of the wooden masks he used to make

playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one's 'inner life' and the knowledge that

For the Unnamed by Fred D'Aguiar Lesbian alternative realityFor the Unnamed (Black Jockey Who Rode the Winning Steed in the Race Between Pico's Sarco and Sepulveda's Black Swan in Los Angeles, in 1852.)Fred D'Aguiar's new book recovers and re imagines the story of a black jockey who raced and won the most publicised race of his era and yet was not named in any of the many press notices about the event. Except to say that he was black and he was a freeman (that is, he had purchased his freedom). Carcanet