Born in a Second Language - Brossura

Afiriyie-hwedie, Akosua

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1943735921 ISBN 13: 9781943735921

Casa editrice: Button Poetry, 2021

Riassunto

Born in a Second Language troubles the spectrum between silence (or the limitations of the mouth) and music. Language is an embodied practice, especially present through our hands. Words, specifically names, are a means of conjuring a certain kind of existence, and defining who one will become. Thus, different languages unlock different worlds, and the names speakers answer to open them up to different becomings. Born in a Second Language is curious about the sonic, imagistic and linear implications on the page of speaking multiple languages when political, historical and cultural weights contend. It's compelled by disappearance and how translation is often a mode through which it occurs across borders - a way in which we obliterate, often due to what is untranslatable and considered unwelcome, as we come into new selves in order to survive new territory. Translation is not only a tool to understand language, but also a process that alters identity as speakers move through space and time. In the work, 'home' is one's body, gender, a mother, mother tongue, Brenda Fassie etc. How home is defined impacts each speaker's positionality and perspective; it allows for understanding the connection between the interior and exterior worlds of the speakers. While the use of past geographical homes and history is, in some poems, nostalgic and in homage, the greater project aims to examine how these elements aren't stagnant temporally but rather persist in and shape speakers presently.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Button Poetry
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1943735921
• ISBN 13: 9781943735921
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 42
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile