Emmanuel Iduma

A Stranger's Pose

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A unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters haunted by the absence of home, estrangement from a lover and family tragedies. The author's recollections and reflections of fragments of his journeys to African cities, from Dakar to Douala, Bamako to Benin, and Khartoum to Casablanca, offer a compelling and very personal meditation on the meaning of home and the generosity of strangers to a lone traveller. Alongside accounts of the author's own travels are other narratives about movement, intimacy, the power of language and translation.Whilst echoing the writings of Anne Michaels… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-911115-50-2
EAN: 9781911115502
Produktnummer: 29324040
Verlag: Cassava Republic Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 5'832 KB

Über den Autor

Emmanuel Iduma is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Born and raised in Nigeria, his essays and stories appear frequently in journals, magazines, artists' books, and exhibition catalogues. He is the author of The Sound of Things to Come (The Mantle, 2016) and co-editor of Gambit: Newer African Writing (The Mantle, 2014). His essays on art and photography have been published widely and he has received the 2017 Creative Capital/The Andy Warhol Foundation Grant in Art Writing. He trained as a lawyer, and received an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he is a faculty member. In 2017, he was associate curator of the Nigerian pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He is editor of Saraba Magazine.