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My Country, Tonight

By Josue Guebo

My Country, Tonight

By Josue Guebo

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Poetry. African Studies. Translated by Todd Fredson. "Josue Guebo's MY COUNTRY, TONIGHT offers English- language readers their first sustained encounter with one of the important contemporary poets of the Ivory Coast and Francophone Africa. Translated with superb nuance and verve by Todd Fredson, who also provides an insightful introduction to the collection, Guebo's poems present a stirring, condensed and often ironic vision of his country's long colonial and post- independence struggle for cultural, political and economic sovereignty, against the power-plays of the neoliberal West and global capitalism. Both lyric and polemic, MY COUNTRY, TONIGHT, by 'tear[ing] the names open for us,' adds new depth to our post-colonial understanding of recent Ivorian history and enriches our appreciation of African poetry today."--John Keene
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
97
Release Date:
2016-10-15
Publication Date:
2016-10-15
Publisher:
Action Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0900575905
ISBN13:
9780900575907
Weight:
181 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
185 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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