Not the Tales You Were Told
Once upon a time, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories--fantastical yarns
of wondrous creatures in faraway places--bewitched children across the
world. But times change. Today, Kipling's writing tells us a different
tale; of a love of Empire, and the troubling legacy of British
colonialism.
In Not So Stories, writers of colour from around the world reclaim
these stories and remake them into something new. Something different.
Something that belongs to us all.
Including stories by Adiwijaya Iskandar, Joseph Elliott-Coleman,
Raymond Gates, Stewart Hotston, Zina Hutton, Georgina Kamsika, Cassandra
Khaw, Paul Krueger, Tauriq Moosa, Jeannette Ng, Ali Nouraei, Wayne
Santos, Zedeck Siew and Achala Upendran, with illustrations by
Woodrow Phoenix and a foreword by Nikesh Shukla.