This Strange Land
β Scribed by Shara McCallum
- Book ID
- 111135557
- Publisher
- Alice James Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781938584596
- ASIN
- B01DRXANB2
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out notions of history, language, motherhood, rupture, memory, and identity. She weaves new cloth of oral tradition, struggling to arrange a comfort zone within the foreign manufactures of suburbia. Hers is the skilled music of a master.
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