S1/E2 Sita Balani & Yara Rodrigues Fowler: Protest and the novel

In this episode, Sita is in conversation with Yara on their novels – Stubborn Archivist and There Are More Things. The conversation focuses on transnational circuits of political repression and resistance – in particular the connections between the UK and Brazil. Experimental yet accessible, Fowler’s work captures the rhythms of life in contemporary London and the ways in which the city is shaped by longer historical forces with global reach. The interview focuses on fiction as a form, asking where the novel can take us that other kind of writing can’t reach. Links: https://www.waterstones.com/book/there-are-more-things/yara-rodrigues-fowler/9780349726724 https://yararodriguesfowler.com About Structure of Feeling In this Surviving Society miniseries, Sita Balani draws on the ideas of socialist thinker Raymond Williams who coined the term ‘structure of feeling’ to capture our collective emotional experience of social change. Interviewing Kieran Yates, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Alfie Bown and Tabitha Lasley, these conversations reveal how writing can help us to trace the texture of everyday life, the rhythms of relationships forged as the old social contract frays, and the moments of possibility that emerge in this time of political rupture. These writers document the ways in which powerful political forces are felt in the tempo of an individual life, and the agency we have to shape this changing world.