Description
Brick by brick, Tanatsei Gambura dismantles walls of silence to show us the story behind the story: in a township room in 80s Harare, a stra e in Bonn, an otherplace locked into grandmothers' hips. Here we find lost brothers, predatory officers, the smiles of women on Fair & Lovely tubes, the concomitance of personal and national cataclysms. We confront our collusion in collective forgetfulness, and the painful but necessary process of rememory. Assured and inventive, Gambura reminds us that words are tools for worldbuilding, engineering language with startling grace.
In my language, the dead are welcomed into the home. But the word for home is also the word for sing, so maybe invited into a song.
Author: Tanatsei Gambura
Publisher: Bad Betty Press
Published: 05/14/2021
Pages: 36
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.13lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.09d
ISBN13: 9781913268169
ISBN10: 1913268160
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa | South | General
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Social Science | Human Geography