Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Ben Masters, Derek Neale and Jane Yeh. It was first published in August 2019.

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Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s children: Copyright © 1981, Salman Rushie, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited

Fleur Adcock, ‘A surprise in the Peninsula’: from Poems 1960–2000, Bloodaxe Books, 2000.

Kaadzi Ghansah, R. (2013) ‘If He Hollers Let Him Go’, The Believer, October 2013. Copyright © 2013 The Believer and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

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