Safia Elhillo

January Children (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1." What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one's own land.The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani-an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds. No longer content to accept manmade borders, Elhillo navigates a new and reimagined world. Maintaining a sense of wonder in multiple landscapes and mindscapes of perpetually shifting values, she leads the reader through a postcolonial narrative that is equally terrifying and tender, melancholy and defiant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496200075
• Artikelnr.: 55281592

Autorenporträt

Safia Elhillo is a Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor at Kinfolks Quarterly. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. She is the author of The Life and Times of Susie Knuckles.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kwame Dawes    
Acknowledgments    
asmarani makes prayer    
vocabulary    
Sudan Today. Nairobi: University of Africa, 1971. Print.    
to make use of water    
[did our mothers invent loneliness or . . . ]     
while being escorted from the abdelhalim hafez concert    
application for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl    
abdelhalim hafez asks for references    
talking with an accent about home    
origin stories    
a brief history of silence    
the last time marvin gaye was heard in the sudan    
first interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl    
the lovers    
talking with an accent about home    
first adornment    
callback interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl    
bride price    
old wives’ tales    
date night with abdelhalim hafez    
first quarantine with abdelhalim hafez    
self-portrait with dirty hair    
watching arab idol with abdelhalim hafez    
self-portrait with the question of race    
second date    
abdelhalim hafez wants to see other people    
red moon night    
self-portrait with yellow dress    
others    
alternate ending    
[& what is a country but the drawing . . . .]     
late-night phone call with abdelhalim hafez    
republic of the sudan / ministry of interior / passport & immigration
general directorate / alien from sudanese origin passcard    
talking with an accent about home    
talking with an accent about home (second take)     
second quarantine with abdelhalim hafez    
portrait with asylum    
talking to boys about abdelhalim hafez at parties    
biopic containing lies about abdelhalim hafez    
asmarani does psychogeography    
why abdelhalim    
self-portrait with lake nasser    
abdelhalim hafez asks who the sudanese are    
the part i keep forgetting    
talking with an accent about home (reprise)     
third quarantine with abdelhalim hafez    
final interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl    
self-portrait as abdelhalim hafez’s girl    
portrait with abdelhalim hafez with the question of race    
lovers’ quarrel with abdelhalim hafez    
portrait of abdelhalim hafez as orpheus    
glossary    
everything i know about abdelhalim hafez    
notes