<input type&equals;"hidden" value&equals;"" data-essbisPostContainer&equals;"" data-essbisPostUrl&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;7-short-literary-collections-to-gobble-up-with-your-work-lunch&sol;" data-essbisPostTitle&equals;"7 Short Literary Collections To Gobble Up With Your Work Lunch" data-essbisHoverContainer&equals;"">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Sometimes all you need is a good book along with your lunch to make the lunch more palatable&period; Here is a range of intersectional books which will rejuvenate you in the workplace&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;09&sol;wallpaper-1024x683&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"7 Short Literary Collections To Gobble Up With Your Work Lunch" class&equals;"wp-image-32798" width&equals;"800"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">The current situation has caused us all to feel trapped and isolated&period; This sentiment is reflected in the stream of consciousness short story by Gilman called &OpenCurlyQuote;The Yellow Wallpaper’&period; The story&comma; now a classic&comma; is considered a cornerstone in feminist literature&period; The story follows a woman&comma; slowly losing her mind as the uncaring world goes on – sentiment we can all relate to presently&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Gilman lived in a time where writing about women&&num;8217&semi;s life was deemed&comma; at best&comma; trivial&comma; and&comma; at worst&comma; harmful&period; The narrative is an essential look at the position of women in marriage and society&comma; and it will most certainly become a fixture in the feminist literary canon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Matigari By Ng&utilde;g&itilde; Wa Thiong&&num;8217&semi;o<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;09&sol;Ngugi-wa-Thiongo-Matigari&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"7 Short Literary Collections To Gobble Up With Your Work Lunch" class&equals;"wp-image-32799" width&equals;"800"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Nyugi is a celebrated post-colonial writer who works in semantic research and colonial activism&period; Matigari stands as a testament to post-colonial neo liberal sentiment in the third world nations&period; We walk with the titular character&comma; Matigari&comma; a saviour as he gets slowly disillusioned with the post-colonial dream of justice&comma; freedom and equality in a world rabid with socio-cultural and economic oppression and disparities&period; Nyugi’s character exists in a certain charm and naivete&comma; making the story extremely palatable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">With Matigari Nyugi has tried to bring nuance into Kenya’s rich culture and history&period; It was one of the first books he wrote in his native language and its revolutionary tone is meant to provoke masses into action&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Quand Prime Le Spirituel By Simone De Beauvoir<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;09&sol;184743&period;&lowbar;UY630&lowbar;SR1200630&lowbar;-1024x538&period;jpg" alt&equals;"7 Short Literary Collections To Gobble Up With Your Work Lunch" class&equals;"wp-image-32800" width&equals;"800"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">&OpenCurlyQuote;When Things of the Spirit Come First’ is Simone De Beauvoir’s earlier completed collection of fictional short stories&period; She one of the most important icons in feminist literature and philosophy&period; Beauvoir&&num;8217&semi;s early satire mostly criticizes the bourgeois Catholic dogma that she was reared with&comma; but her later work parodies the technocratic fantasies and media-generated images of 1960s France&period; However&comma; both novels highlight how overprotected children of privilege learn passivity&comma; and later hypocrisy&period; Her charm and wit&comma; which shines even in her non-fiction&comma; really elevate the satire under which her characters exist&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Beauvoir demonstrates how the tales and pictures we receive teach us to view people as manufactured objects rather as free individuals and fellow humans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Azadi By Arundhati Roy<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;09&sol;119420524&lowbar;3518119798250024&lowbar;5562386916951690312&lowbar;n-1024x768&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"7 Short Literary Collections To Gobble Up With Your Work Lunch" class&equals;"wp-image-32802" width&equals;"800"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Azadi&comma; meaning freedom&comma; is a book of essays written by Indian Booker prize winner and activist Arundhati Roy&period; The beauty in her writing shines through in her fictional worlds or rural India as she brings characters vividly to life&period; But in her latest collection of essays&comma; she pulls no punches&period; It is a raw account of the abuse of fundamental rights which the people in her country have endured&period; Her raw writing still brings her earlier work to mind but its nonchalant conversational tone really sets stage for her message&comma; which is reclamation&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">It’s a great read&comma; especially if well-written non-fiction is your genre&period; Arundhati Roy really engages the intersectional feminist in you&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">The Thing Around Your Neck By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;09&sol;42b5a-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-1024x768&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"7 Short Literary Collections To Gobble Up With Your Work Lunch" class&equals;"wp-image-32803" width&equals;"800"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Every time Adichie writes&comma; you know it is going to wreck you emotionally&period; As the foremost voice in post-colonial feminist literature&comma; Adichie touches on the sincerest existential topics which plague colonized minds&period; In &&num;8220&semi;The Thing Around Your Neck&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Chimamanda Adichie explains how the American Dream is not what it appears to be&period; Her short tale follows Akunna as she faces with all of the difficulties that come with migrating to the United States&comma; such as stereotypes&comma; racism&comma; and the difficulties of finding a decent existence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">It&&num;8217&semi;s a great read&comma; especially as you are sipping your coffee in your break room&comma; comprehending how the floor beneath your feet just shifted because of Adichie’s lucid writing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Ariel By Sylvia Plath<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;09&sol;Image-resize-for-WP-6&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"7 Short Literary Collections To Gobble Up With Your Work Lunch" class&equals;"wp-image-32804" width&equals;"800"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Plath is a landmark confessional poet and writer&comma; who is often considered to have a huge part in the feminist awakening&period; Because of the accuracy and richness of its imagery&comma; Ariel is likely Plath&&num;8217&semi;s greatest single creation&period; Plath perfects her approach of leaping from picture to image in order to portray mental activity in her narrative of the ceremonial trip to the heart of life and death&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Plath’s melancholia and abstraction is a great read whenever you have a second to space&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;09&sol;8316&lowbar;e0b230f0-b7d3-4b08-a38f-cbc5d944e6fd&lowbar;1024x1024&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"7 Short Literary Collections To Gobble Up With Your Work Lunch" class&equals;"wp-image-32805" width&equals;"800"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-align-justify">Notes of a Native son is a collection of essays by James Baldwin&comma; which is his first series of non-fiction essays&period; It’s reflective of the relationship fathers and sons share&period; Even though the relationship of these sons to their father is discussed throughout the chapter&comma; the major goal of the discussion is Baldwin&&num;8217&semi;s attempt to comprehend the role of black people in the development of America as we know it today&period; Baldwin constantly questions if the position of black people in American culture is so significant that most individuals are still obsessed with personal importance&comma; while others experience personal nonentity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><em>If you liked reading this&comma; you should also read&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;yodoozy&period;com&sol;is-banksy-really-the-greatest-artist-of-our-generation&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">Is Banksy Really The Greatest Artist Of Our Generation&quest;<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;