Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Poets Out Loud
ISBN-10
0823281108
ISBN-13
9780823281107
Edition
New
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Imprint
Fordham University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 4th, 2018
Print length
136 Pages
Weight
288 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 22.80 x 1.00 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry by individual poets
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Xamissa is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. Xamissa adapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running from Table Mountain to the sea, under the city itself, since before the colonial Dutch ships came—the X of the title standing in for the multiple ways in the languages of the Cape, past and present, the reader may pronounce the first consonant. A work of documentary poetics that investigates the cost of whiteness in South Africa, Xamissa code-switches at times into Lontara, the subversive Indonesian script that undercuts the prevalence of Dutch in the colonial archive. Through serial questions around the ethics of its address, Xamissa probes the interrelation of language, sociality, and resistance, in its bid to interrogate the archive as a draft of the city's future.
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