Beating the Graves Contributor(s): Jaji, Tsitsi Ella (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803299605 ISBN-13: 9780803299603 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | African - Poetry | Women Authors |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2016034814 |
Series: African Poetry Book |
Physical Information: 0.27" H x 6" W x 9" (0.39 lbs) 114 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Locality - Youngstown-Warren, Ohio - Geographic Orientation - Ohio - Cultural Region - Midwest |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. Many poems explore the genre of praise poetry, which in Shona culture is a form of social currency for greeting elders and peers with a recitation of the characteristics of one's clan. Others reflect on how diasporic life shapes family relations. 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. |