Description
| Product ID: | 9781642596977 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Body Family |
| Authors: | Author: Hope Wabuke |
| Page Count: | 80 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry, Ethnic studies, Political control and freedoms, Human rights, civil rights, Civics and citizenship, Black & Asian studies, Political control & freedoms, Human rights, Civil rights & citizenship |
| Description: | Hope Wabuke weaves together a coming-of-age narrative of a Black girl, the child of immigrants fleeing from genocidal terror to America. The Body Family is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime unearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure. This lyrical and imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family’s journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda’s Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke excavates personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be a Black girl becoming a Black woman while navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement. |
| Imprint Name: | Haymarket Books |
| Publisher Name: | Haymarket Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-12 |
