The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape of Zimbabwe filter critiques of contemporary political conditions and ecological challenges, veiled in the multiple meanings of poetic metaphor.
Über den Autor
Tsitsi Ella Jaji is an associate professor of African and African American studies at Duke University. She is the author of Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
ANKESTRAL.
Drought
The Book of VaNyemba
Praise Song for Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Song of Yobe
To Praise the Hornbill
Deep English
BOTANICAL.
The Go-Betweens
Family Trees.
Vindication
Holy Departure (A Berceuse)
Dust to Dust
Document for U.S. Citizens Who Have Never Applied for a Visa and Have Had It Up to Here with Those Loud Aliens Who Go On and On about Some Letter
Blunt Balm
Matobo Hills
Philosophical Investigations
Limpopo Blues
Wait until the Leader Clears the Lunar
A Prelude to a Kiss
My Funny Valentine
Small Consolation
Our Embrace
CARNAVAL.
Carnaval: A Suite
Liturgy
To Bless the Memory of Tamir Rice
Acknowledgments
Klappentext
Tsitsi Ella Jaji is an associate professor of¿African and African American studies at Duke University.¿She is the author of¿Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity.¿
