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Indigenous Species

By Khairani Barokka

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Indigenous Species

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"A ballad about wounded islands and their people, Indigenous Species reminds me of an old song, the kind our village storytellers used to sing. It has a fairytale quality, setting a dreamlike world alongside the horror of real lives; in other words, it's like a lullaby, but one that will make you stay awake." -- Eka Kurniawan, author of Beauty is a Wound A young girl is abducted and smuggled aboard a boat bound upstream on an Indonesian river, through a landscape scarred by ecological destruction and historical greed. As her captors take her ever deeper into the jungle, her uncertain fate is compounded by the sense of her environment as a place of violence, destruction and jeopardy. But it is also a place from which she herself is indigenous, and if she can root herself back into its landscape and languages, she may yet save herself. Khairani Barokka addresses issues of pollution, consumerism, and habitat destruction with a poet's sensibility, and her frenetic neon artwork, inspired by contemporary glitch artists while also incorporating traditional motifs, aims to overturn our ideas of the jungle as a place of threatening darkness.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
52
Release Date:
2020-10-30
Publication Date:
2021-01-15
Publisher:
Tilted Axis Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
191128455X
ISBN13:
9781911284550
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
155 g
Height:
159 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
5 cm
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