![]() Reinhold’s highly researched and complex narrative demonstrates what Carol Boyce Davies’ terms ‘critical relationality’ in her discussion of Black women’s writing: an ‘anti-definitional stance moves us out of minority status into possibilities of alliances which recognize specificities and differences. ![]() This three-part novel weaves together multiple discourses that bring to light the insidious, and at times, more overt mechanisms of social oppression, discrimination, and prejudice, which operate within the recordings of history, the criteria of archives, and the ideologies of art movements. Shola von Reinhold’s debut novel, LOTE (2020), takes the reader on a fabulously queer, decadent, decolonial, and complex journey of the protagonist Mathilda’s discovery of Hermia Druitt, a forgotten, historically erased, Black Modernist who lived amongst the Bright Young People of the 1920s. “Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman,” Virginia Woolf said. Isabelle Coy-Dibley, University of Westminster ![]()
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