There Where It's So Bright in Me

Name: There Where It's So Bright in Me
SKU: 9781496230560
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Author: Tanella Boni
ISBN: 9781496230560

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvTanella Boni

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There Where It’s So Bright in Me pries at the complexities of difference-race, religion, gender, nationality-that shape twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions. With work spanning more than thirty-five years and as one of the most prominent figures in contemporary African literature, Tanella Boni is uniquely positioned to test the distinctions of self, other, and belonging. Two twenty-first-century civil wars have made her West African home country of CÔte d’Ivoire unstable. Abroad in the United States, Boni confronts the racialized violence that accompanies the idea of Blackness; in France, a second home since her university days, Boni encounters the nationalism roiling much of Europe as the consequences of (neo)colonialism shift the continent’s ethnic and racial profile.What would it mean for the borders that segregate-for these social, political, cultural, personal, and historicizing forces that enshroud us-to lose their dominion? In a body under constant threat, how does the human spirit stay afloat? Boni’s poetry is characterized by a hard-earned buoyancy, given her subject matter. Her empathy, insight, and plainspoken address are crucial contributions to the many difficult contemporary conversations we must engage.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-01
Mått152 x 229 x 7 mm
Vikt146 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfrican Poetry Book
Antal sidor96
FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
MedarbetareChris Abani
ISBN9781496230560
ÖversättareTodd Fredson

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Tanella Boni is an Ivorian poet, novelist, and professor of philosophy at the UniversitÉ FÉlix HouphouËt-Boigny, formerly the University of Abidjan (Cocody). She has published numerous critical and literary works in French and won the 2009 Antonio Viccaro International Poetry Prize from UNESCO for her body of work. She is the author of The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn (Nebraska, 2018). Todd Fredson is a poet, critic, and translator of Francophone West African literature and poetry, including Tanella Boni’s The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn (Nebraska, 2018). Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright.

“Meditative, precise, and abundant with mystery, Tanella Boni’s poems are alive with the breath of the world. They are fierce, prayerful, experimental, and lamenting-filled with movement, the songs of small things, ‘the time of sobbing the long blues,’ her ‘woman’s skin’ and ‘woman’s memory.’ Todd Fredson’s translations bring such gorgeous and complex lucidity from Boni’s French into English.”-Aracelis Girmay, author of The Black Maria “The negotiation in language, politics, history, gender, and identity is at the heart of this extraordinary translation of Tanella Boni’s poetry. . . . [Translator] Todd Fredson is becoming a reliable guide across the borders of language that impede the conversations that should be going on between African poets and readers, and poets and readers from around the world. He is doing so with care and sensitivity. Tanella Boni has published prolifically in French. We welcome such translations for what they give to us, for the way they expand the journeys of our collective selves.”-from Chris Abani’s foreword