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Xamissa

By Henk Rossouw

Xamissa

By Henk Rossouw

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Xamissa is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. Xamissa adapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running from Table Mountain to the sea, under the city itself, since before the colonial Dutch ships came--the X of the title standing in for the multiple ways in the languages of the Cape, past and present, the reader may pronounce the first consonant.A work of documentary poetics that investigates the cost of whiteness in South Africa, Xamissa code-switches at times into Lontara, the subversive Indonesian script that undercuts the prevalence of Dutch in the colonial archive. Through serial questions around the ethics of its address, Xamissa probes the interrelation of language, sociality, and resistance, in its bid to interrogate the archive as a draft of the city's future.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
132
Release Date:
2018-09-04
Publication Date:
2018-09-01
Publisher:
Fordham University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0823281108
ISBN13:
9780823281107
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
289 g
Height:
216 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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