The January children
Safia Elhillo · 2017
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The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan’s history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani—an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds.
Book details
- Year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Series
- African poetry book series
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 63
- ISBN
- 9780803295988
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