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Baderoon, Gabeba

 
9780810143609: The History of Intimacy: Poems
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ISBN 10: 0810143607 ISBN 13: 9780810143609
Editorial: Northwestern University Press, 2021

Sinopsis

Gabeba Baderoon’s The History of Intimacy is a tender, tangled account of the heady days in South Africa following Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. This award-winning poetry collection portrays the innovative forms of music, kinship, and even self in “the new, intricate country / we understood was impossible.” Gazing at black-and-white photos from back home, a woman who has moved to the United States realizes, “Memory doesn’t come to me straight.” Conversations overheard in line at the DMV reveal the complex nature of identity. When asked to name the color of her skin, a girl confides, “It was the first time I admitted / I loved the skin of white boys.” The poems are also light-hearted. In “Ghost Technologies,” about romance in the early days of the internet, the speaker recalls “when we loved each other on dial-up.” The collection begins and ends with poems on writing, paying tribute to poets such as Keorapetse Kgositsile and Archie Markham who taught her that “a border / is a place of yielding or refusing to yield / for after refusal might lie a new country.”
 
Born on the coastal shores of Port Elizabeth, Baderoon is one of South Africa’s most acclaimed literary voices. In The History of Intimacy―originally published by Kwela Books―she crafts resonant poems about a writer’s beginnings, love across boundaries, and “how not to be alone.”

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Acerca del autor

Gabeba Baderoon is the author of three poetry collections, including A hundred silences, a finalist for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the Olive Schreiner Award, and The Dream in the Next Body, which received the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. She is an associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and African studies at Penn State University.

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Editorial
Northwestern University Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0810143607
ISBN 13 
9780810143609
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
80
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