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Book Synopsis Agringada: Like a gringa, like a foreigner by : Tariro Ndoro
Download or read book Agringada: Like a gringa, like a foreigner written by Tariro Ndoro and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest exploration of dislocation and (un)belonging in its forms: exile from language, exile from country, and exile from sanity. In her debut collection of poetry, Ndoro divides and intermingles national and personal history in an attempt to reach herself. Within its fragmented prose and lyrical poems, Agringanda is not only a celebrated capture of language but also of its intriguing subversion as it navigates meetings of class, gender, nationality and race.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Poem by : Sean Pryor
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Poem written by Sean Pryor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social and cultural lives. It examines the poem in the archive and in the digital sphere, as well as in relation to decolonization and global capitalism. The chapters in this volume range across both canonical and non-canonical poems, poems from the past and the present, and poems by a diverse set of poets. This book will be a key resource for students and scholars studying the poem.
Book Synopsis The Only Magic We Know by : Marike Beyers
Download or read book The Only Magic We Know written by Marike Beyers and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of all the poets Modjaji has published. This anthology offers a taste of the range and diversity of the poems that have appeared in the individual poets collections.
Book Synopsis Bare and Breaking by : Karin Schimke
Download or read book Bare and Breaking written by Karin Schimke and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karin Schimke is a widely published journalist and columnist, and the Cape Times books editor. She also works as a writing tutor and mentor, an author of non-fiction - including the best-selling Fabulously Forty and Beyond, co-written with Margie Orford - of children's books and of short stories. She edited Open, an anthology of erotic short stories written by some of South Africa's best known women writers. Her poetry has appeared in South Africa Writing, New Contrast, New Coin and Carapace magazines. Bare & Breaking is her first collection of poems.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Delivery Room by : Khadija Heeger
Download or read book Beyond the Delivery Room written by Khadija Heeger and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut collection of poems from popular performance poet, Khadija Heeger. The collection is the first in a trilogy of poems that Heeger has worked on over many years. This collection is a combination of story-telling, resistance, re-naming, remembering. The language of the book is personal to the poet and reflects the wider community and society she is part of. She mixes languages, English and Afrikaans, and the language of the Cape called Kaaps.
Download or read book Diaspora Dreams written by Andrew Chatora and published by Kharis Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chatora gives us an honest account of the migrant's experiences in a world that seeks to silence him. Diaspora Dreams is simultaneously suffocating and isolating. Battle after battle, the reader is constantly thrown into the unforgiving world of a black man in a white man's world." - Tariro Ndoro, Author Agringada: Like a Gringa, Like a Foreigner. Diaspora Dreams is Andrew Chatora's debut novella. It details the life and struggles of Kundai Mafirakureva, a Zimbabwean immigrant living in the United Kingdom. When Kundai departs a failing Zimbabwe for the greener pastures of England, he is convinced that his luck will immediately change. Yet what he finds in the UK convinces him that all that glitters is not always gold. Chatora takes us on a journey that acquaints us with Thames Valley, where Kundai must negotiate his place and his voice in a world where African men are not welcome. Set against the backdrop of petty classroom squabbles that constantly remind Kundai of his lower status as an immigrant, Diaspora Dreams exposes the tensions of working in the diaspora. The pressures of Britain also bear down on Kundai's family and relationships, threatening, in the words of du Bois, to "tear his soul asunder."
Download or read book Strange Fruit written by Helen Moffett and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Fruit is a courageous debut with a remarkable range in theme and tone, from the nostalgic to the comedic to the bawdy, and to the angry, the melancholic and the steadfast and comforting. It will delight, shock, anger, induce laughter, shock more, delight more. And make you blush. It's a full range. There are poems of brutally honest self-scrutiny - the heart of the collection being a series of poems on the ageing body, loss of love and infertility - and there are poems that capture landscapes with imagist skill and the botanist's detail.
Book Synopsis The Attribute of Poetry by : Galgut, Elisa
Download or read book The Attribute of Poetry written by Galgut, Elisa and published by Modjaji Books. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These deeply felt poems are at once plain-speaking and alive with complexity; Galgut's elegant response to both pain and loveliness is inspiring. Elisa Galgut teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. She has a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. Her poetry has appeared in local literary journals and anthologies. She lives in Cape Town.
Download or read book No Ruined Stone written by Shara McCallum and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone?
Download or read book Thungachi written by Simon, Francine and published by uHlanga. This book was released on 2017-03-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With expert, elegant and economical verse, Francine Simon’s debut collection blends ancestral Catholic mysticism and ancient folk Hinduism to create new and essential portraits of modern South African-Indian identity and womanhood. Unflinching and meditative, Thungachi tracks the journeys, migrations and maturations of peoples, families and the self, all while deftly innovating with form, language and style – ultimately marking Simon out as one of South Africa’s most unexpectedly excellent poetic débutantes.
Book Synopsis The History of Intimacy by : Gabeba Baderoon
Download or read book The History of Intimacy written by Gabeba Baderoon and published by TriQuarterly Books. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabeba Baderoon's The History of Intimacy traces one woman's journey into writing. The winner of numerous awards, the collection reflects on the delicate, risky terrain of art, politics, and love in postapartheid South Africa.
Download or read book Milk Fever written by Ross, Megan and published by uHlanga. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extraordinary debut, Megan Ross writes the uneasy truths about unexpected motherhood and all its emotional detritus. In deftly and experimentally navigating the angst, joy and self-reckoning that comes with the choices and misadventures of young womanhood, this is a collection that brings together the evocative with the provocative, and the feminist with the personal, in a bold and startling poetic style. Hallucinatory, image-wet, and navigating the eternal tides of spirit and body, Milk Fever is a chimeric dreamscape in which a woman reconfigures, remembers and rebirths herself.
Download or read book Predictive Text written by Crystal Warren and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of tender, bite-sized poems on being a writer, loneliness, faith, patriarchy, climate change, grief, and more, Crystal Warren offers up an ode to the every day. With Warrens signature light touch, Predictive Text is sensitive, unaffected, a relief from the brash, unrelenting tumult of twenty-first century life, while tethered to deeper truths.
Book Synopsis Ou sont mes ailes ? / Where Are My Wings? by : Lydie Tour
Download or read book Ou sont mes ailes ? / Where Are My Wings? written by Lydie Tour and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dont sit on your stool, watching life go by, insists Soutcho Lydie Tour. In this collection of reflections written over a decade, she explores insecurities and vulnerabilities, with which many a reader will relate. She shares about loneliness and feeling different and goes on to ponder everyday life in Politicking and VDN a memorable highway in Dakar which pedestrians must cross under the mocking smile of the sun. Tour draws on experiences and insights from her life betwixt and between West Africa and North America. In her verses, spiced with nature, color, joy, humor and fantasy, questions and answers compete equally for the readers attention. A veritable source of confidence in the force of life and love. Confidence that makes one grow wings.
Download or read book 100 Papers written by Jobson, Liesl and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liesl Jobson’s collection is aptly termed “flash fiction” or “prose poems”. It comprises 100 short pieces that are beautifully impressionistic - the literary equivalent of a well-times photograph.
Download or read book Red Cotton written by Gantsho, Vangile and published by Impepho Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: red cotton is an exploration of what it means to be black, queer, and woman in modern-day South Africa. gantsho interrogates being non-conformist in both a traditional-cultural-religious upbringing and a more liberal yet equally-oppressive urban socialisation. This poetry novella questions what women are taught about their bodies and the feminine sexual space, while also addressing the mother-daughter relationship as the first and most constant reference of womanhood. The collection moves fluidly between the erotic, the uncomfortable and grotesque. What is painful and what is beautiful? What is remembered and what is longed-for?
Book Synopsis Where I Belong by : Bhoumik, Smeetha
Download or read book Where I Belong written by Bhoumik, Smeetha and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smeetha Bhoumik is an artist celebrating her deep engagement with poetry. Her main theme of work is the Universe Series, exploring the mystery, oneness and unifying energies of the universe in oils and new media, shown in national and international exhibitions.