"My Marbles Are Many-Coloured". The Colours of Age in Jackie Kay's "These Are Not My Clothes"

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.0, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: In 2012, Jackie Kay published her third collection of short stories Reality, Reality, which was immediately considered ranking amongst the best of the genre. This essay seeks to explore the meaning of the colours of age ...